Research: NSFT featured anonymously in prestigious Journal of Management Studies

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The salary of more than £150,000 per year paid by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) to its Director of Research without a PhD appears to have finally paid off. NSFT’s management has been featured anonymously in a leading business journal, Journal of Management Studies. You can read the fascinating article by Mats Alvesson […]

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The Guardian: Nuwan Dissanayaka: Jamie is psychotic and won’t go outside. Mental health services are failing him

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This article from Nuwan Dissanayaka needs to be read by everybody with an interest in mental health. Dr. Dissanayaka is really worth following on Twitter. We’re delighted Nuwan’s views are getting wider attention in the national press. Dr. Dissanayaka is the consultant psychiatrist in the Assertive Outreach team in Leeds. Of course, assertive outreach at

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NSFT Director of Strategy and Resources, Leigh Howlett, leaves the Board of Shame

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Leigh Howlett was the Director of Strategy and Resources at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT). NSFT’s strategy seems to have been to implement an electronic medical record system that was unreliable and reduced productivity, to accept a smaller proportion of the NHS budget every year and to ignore the findings of the Care

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Health Service Journal: The worrying truth about mental health services: The King’s Fund on NSFT’s failure

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Helen Gilburt, a fellow in health policy at The King’s Fund, writes: The example of Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust provides a stark reminder of the risks associated with undertaking whole-system transformation at scale and pace. To pre-empt increased financial risk and deliver efficiency savings, the trust engaged in delivering a vision of implementing recovery-orientated

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In NSFT’s words: Bed pressure

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“Use of ‘red leave’ bed’s to manage patients locally, meaning using beds deemed to be held for patients considered to be potentially at risk by inpatient teams. Increased demands on staffing to manage high turnover of service users as well as protracted time periods required to manage applications for OOA placements as well as transport issues. OOA placement usage, this provides financial pressures and risk as well as quality risk. Extended

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In NSFT’s words: Unallocated cases

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“Inability to provide an individual practitioner to every Service User in Central Adult Community There are a growing number of unallocated clinical cases in the Central Locality who require Care Coordination or Lead Care Professional alignment which could result in a lack of timely intervention if required. last recorded unallocated numbers awaiting caseload allocation is 381.” The current dangerous situation in mental health community teams is going to become much, much worse

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Audio: Campaigner Emma Corlett of Unison interviewed on BBC Radio Norfolk about massive cuts envisaged by NSFT’s 5 Year Strategic Plan

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We have already written about the massive cuts envisaged by the 5 Year Plan submitted by Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) to its regulator, Monitor. At the NSFT Board meeting last week, one of the non-executive directors of NSFT acknowledged that the real-terms depth of the planned cuts is 7.5 per cent per

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EDP: Mental health trust warns of more jobs cuts in Norfolk and Suffolk as part of plans to make £44m more savings

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Campaigners have pledged to lobby Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust’s (NSFT) board of directors meeting today over a new plan, which says that extra savings of £44m would need to be found by 2019, if there is no major increase in mental health funding. Members of the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in

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NSFT pulls its Five Year Strategic Plan from the internet

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But you can still read our copy of the five year strategic plan here. The plan begins on page 20 of the pdf. Strange the way it disappeared after we criticised it. The papers for the Board of Directors meeting in Swaffam tomorrow don’t contain it any longer. How embarrassing.

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26th June 2014: Help us oppose the NSFT Board’s five year plan for further ‘savings’ of £44.1 million, 200 more job losses and more reorganisations and chaos

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Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) Chair, Gary Page, is too busy watching the football in sunny Brazil to attend the next public Board of Directors meeting at The Green Britain Centre (formerly Eco-Tech) in Swaffam on Thursday, 26th June 2014. But it is vital that we attend. Join us to oppose the rubber stamping

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NSFT – A Warning from History: February 2013 EDP – Concerns for patients as 500 mental health jobs face axe in Norfolk and Suffolk

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This is an example of how the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) Board, NSFT governors, Norfolk and Suffolk clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and local MP and responsible minister, Norman Lamb, were warned of the largely predictable consequences of the ‘radical redesign’. Those who questioned whether the Operations Director’s ‘improvements’ would work safely were

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Tribe PR: Is NSFT’s ‘radical redesign’ the Turkey Twizzler of mental healthcare?

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  Campaign supporters have told us that Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has appointed Tribe PR and Andrew Stronach Communications to help it with its PR at a cost of thousands of pounds even though NSFT has its own Communications Team. The Tribe PR website outlines the company’s skills in ‘crisis management’ as

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13th Day of Lent: Going without £122,208 spent on the intranet

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As we seen, NSFT claims to not have enough money to even hire a church hall, to properly staff hostels or fund services the NHS England clinical director for mental health says NSFT should provide. But there never seems to be any problem funding ‘leadership events’ or IT projects. Yes, the intranet revamp really did

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Sixth Day of Lent: Going without… £24,993 wasted on a new NSFT website

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We’ve been having a look at the new, unlaunched and supposedly-hidden Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) website. We know from a Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request that NSFT paid £25,000 for its new website as follows: “Supplier – Cloud2 Limited Design Cost £9,350.00 Development Cost £11,050.00 Deployment Cost £4,600.00 Total Cost £25,000.00″

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BBC: Norfolk County Council takes back social care from trust (NSFT)

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Crisis: What crisis? Norfolk County Council is to take responsibility for the service back from Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust from September. A council meeting in November heard concerns over its poor performance. A spokesman for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: “It is very disappointing but sadly

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EDP Front Page: Mental Health Crisis deepens

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Crisis: What crisis? Serious concerns that social care for adults with mental health issues in Norfolk is not good enough has led to the county council taking responsibility for the service away from the mental health trust. Care of vulnerable Norfolk adults with mental health problems suffered a fresh blow after the plug was pulled

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