15th Day of Lent: Going without 25% of already overstretched commmunity teams

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Karen says: “Gateway House, our ‘The Office’-esque building on a business park in Wymondham which has no facilities whatsoever to see service users, is currently home to leaving cards, bunting and endless leaving do’s. By the end of March, around one quarter of our colleagues in already overstretched community teams will have been paid to […]

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EDP – Graphic: Shock over mental health trust’s £5m redundancy bill

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If ever there was a time to reward great journalism with a physical newspaper purchase, today is it – and the double page spread graphic exposure of NSFTCrisis is brilliant – frame-it-on-the-wall good. Award-winning Adam Gretton in the EDP reports: “The mental health trust for Norfolk and Suffolk, which is trying to fill hundreds of

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14th Day of Lent: EDP – Going without access to treatment even if you’re staff

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This is quite the most shocking story from the excellent Adam Gretton of the EDP. “A mental health worker has revealed how she tried to take her own life during a two-month wait to get an appointment with a community team after she was signed off sick.” Click the image below to read more. Whether you

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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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BBC: Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Trust spends £1.2m at consultant’s hospital

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Jon Welch of the BBC reports: “A mental health trust planning to close beds has spent more than £1m sending patients to a private hospital linked to one of its senior consultants. Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust spent almost £1.2m in 2013 with Milestones at Salhouse, near Norwich. Milestones’ medical director Dr Julian Beezhold

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12th Day of Lent: Going without safe staffing of hostels

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‘Still a nurse’ writes: “One hostel of 4 beds is already closed, and the staff have all been redeployed to other wards. 9 beds remain but staffed from the CRHT so no longer in the same function it was before. And this was no redesign, just the shambles of counting staff in numbers of other

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Response from North Norfolk CCG to AMHP letter highlighting bed crisis at NSFT

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See the letter below which states that North Norfolk CCG will not accept the closure of any more acute adult beds, including the hostels, until people placed out of county are returned and there is no likelihood of out of area placement reoccurring. This reply can be downloaded as a pdf also. You can read

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10th Day of Lent: Going without services which have saved my life

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Victoria writes: “In 2003 I had a breakdown. My Mother had to take me to my GP’s surgery, as he refused a home visit. As I paced up & down the receptionist appeared & asked me to go into a private room as “I was upsetting” other patients. It took 3 days of hell before

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8th Day of Lent: Going without enough beds for young people

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“However, there are still not enough mental health beds for young people on a local and national level, according to a new report commissioned by Healthwatch Norfolk. Experts from the University of East Anglia interviewed patients, commissioners, and mental health workers for the review. They concluded that patients felt that there was a lack of

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7th Day of Lent: Going without Suffolk MIND’s local support

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Jane told us: “A group of people in a small Suffolk town came together in a local church hall. Until this group started I was told how lonely and isolated one man felt. He told me they drank coffee, learnt a little about each other and made friends. They were supported by mental health professional

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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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Public Campaign Meeting: 7 p.m. Tuesday 18th March 2014 at Suffolk One, Scrivener Drive IPSWICH IP8 3SU

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Public Campaign Meeting Tuesday 18th March 7pm Suffolk One, Scrivener Drive, IPSWICH IP8 3SU Did you know: Mentally ill people are sent out of county because there are no beds free in Suffolk? Suffolk’s Early Intervention in Psychosis teams have been scrapped? Specialist Assertive Outreach intervention teams are being abolished at a time of rising

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4th Day of Lent: Going without mandatory training required for professional registration

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Peter writes: “I am significantly out of date for essential training updates which are a legal requirement for my continuing professional registration. I’ve had training requests repeatedly ignored in order that ‘the ward’ is not left unsafely staffed. Missing out on key training on use of the defibrillator, the prevention and management of aggression, safeguarding

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3rd Day of Lent: Going without… dedicated Assertive Outreach (AO) teams

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Dr Geraldine Strathdee, NHS England’s national clinical director for mental health recently told Community Care: “I know there are a number [of Trusts] saying ‘we won’t have a crisis/home treatment team. Instead we’ll put that crisis team function, or that assertive outreach function, into generic services’. I’d urge anyone going with that approach to really

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Video: BBC Look East on the CAMHS Bed Shortage

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This is an excellent piece of journalism looking at the bed shortage for young people. The BBC visits an oversubscribed child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) unit in Essex, The St Aubyn Centre, built by North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Sadly, but unsurprisingly: Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is the trust

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