Gallery: Demonstration at Hellesdon Hospital 1st March 2014

We held a demonstration outside Hellesdon Hospital on Saturday 1st March to highlight both the unannounced and scandalous plans to close 13 hostel beds at Hellesdon Hospital and the deepening crisis in mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk.

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Demonstration: Hellesdon Hospital, Saturday 1st March 10 a.m.

We are holding a demonstration outside Hellesdon Hospital on Saturday 1st March to highlight both the unannounced and scandalous plans to close 13 hostel beds at Hellesdon Hospital and the deepening crisis in mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk. Join us at the main entrance to Hellesdon Hospital at 10 a.m. We chose a

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Recruitment crisis: NSFT forced to try to recruit in Ireland & Portugal having spent £7.3 million on redundancies in 2013/4

“NSFT is facing unprecedented challenges around recruitment, meaning a significant change in our approach is required. In January 2014, the Director of Nursing and Governance reported to the Board on a number of specific services that were experiencing unusual events or circumstances. The Board were made aware that these events were impacting on clinical quality. One

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Audio: BBC Radio Norfolk Breakfast Show interview of Emma Corlett of Unison about results of NHS Staff Survey at NSFT

  Yet again Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) cannot find a single member of the NSFT Board, which pays itself more than £750,000 per year, to appear on the BBC to talk about the NHS Staff Survey. There is a particularly illuminating response from a member of staff about NSFT’s reaction to the

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Cost of the NSFT redundancy programme 2013/14 from NSFT’s own financial reports

The Trust has reduced the year end forecast surplus from £1.9m to £1.6m due to the overall TSS and catering redundancy costs for 2013/14 exceeding the £4.8m specific provision.  The projected total redundancy cost for the year is now £7.3m. NSFT has spent £2.5 million more than the £4.8 million specific provision for redundancies and a very

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EDP: Staff satisfaction decreases at Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust, according to survey

For how much longer can the Chair and non-executive directors of NSFT bury their heads in the sand and give unconditional support to the executive directors responsible for this failed, hubristic ‘radical redesign’ and the consequent and worsening crisis in mental health care in Norfolk and Suffolk? Click on the image below to read the

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NHS Staff Survey 2013 – Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) 2nd worst performing mental health trust in England – official

These results are appalling. They are not only bottom quartile, using the quartile methods so beloved of the Operations Director, they are bottom quartile of the bottom quartile, worst of the worst. Some of the NSFT Board and ‘leadership team’ like to blame this campaign for appalling staff morale. This survey was carried out before

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Audio: Recording of sham consultation public meeting on NSFT bed closures in Lowestoft on 13th February 2014

If you at all interested in the crisis in mental health in Norfolk and Suffolk, this is an essential recording. Listen to the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) executives directly challenged by service users, carers, staff and members of the public, many of them members of this campaign. Congratulations to Great Yarmouth &

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Campaign governors needed at NSFT

The governing body of the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has failed to properly scrutinise the non-executive directors of the Trust and does not reflect the opinions of the majority of its stakeholders. This failure of corporate governance is an important factor in the worsening crisis in mental health services in Norfolk and

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BBC: Mental health patients ‘failed’ says report on Hellesdon Hospital

North Norfolk MP and health minister Norman Lamb said: “The CQC has found that the hospital is sometimes failing to respect privacy, dignity and independence. It is now critical that the trust responds with a genuine sense of urgency to rectify the concerns raised by the CQC.” Emma Corlett, Unison union spokeswoman for staff at

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EDP: Mental health trust says improvements have already been made after critical Hellesdon Hospital inspection

After the publication of a highly critical report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the Director of Nursing, Quality & Patient Safety of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is now claiming that NSFT has ‘taken urgent steps’ to put the problems right. The Director of Nursing claims that ‘We have already taken steps to recruit

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Audio: Emma Corlett of Unison and the Campaign interviewed on BBC Radio Norfolk with NSFT Operations Director over CQC Inspection Failure

Listen as the Operations Director of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) tries to claim that the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) concerns are limited to the signing of Care Plans and waiting times in Access & Assessment. Read the excerpts from the CQC report to discover that the CQC’s concerns are far wider and deeper

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Video: Emma Corlett of Unison and the Campaign interviewed on BBC Look East as NSFT fails CQC inspection at Hellesdon Hospital

It isn’t surprising that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) identified many of the issues about which we have been campaigning for many months. Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) cannot, however, call the CQC claims ‘inaccurate’ or ‘inflammatory’ as it has done to this campaign’s raising of the same problems. Only NSFT could call

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Excerpts from CQC Report & EDP: Urgent action needed after inspection finds Hellesdon Hospital is failing patients

The full CQC report can be downloaded as a pdf. Some excerpts, which can be summarised as: lack of community staff, lack of beds and organisational chaos. If this is the situation now, what will it be like at the end of March when more than one quarter of community team staff will have been

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Live Tweets record of Great Yarmouth & Waveney CCG & NSFT Public ‘Consultation’

Find below a record of our live Twitter coverage of the Great Yarmouth & Waveney CCG and Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) public ‘consultation.’ We distributed about 100 copies of an open letter written by NSFT nurses in Norwich caring for people from Great Yarmouth & Waveney which exposes this ‘consultation’ as a sham.

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Open Letter from NSFT Nurses in Norwich caring for those from Great Yarmouth & Waveney right now

You can download a pdf version of the this letter to print and distribute. OPEN LETTER FROM NSFT NURSES IN NORWICH CARING FOR THOSE FROM GREAT YARMOUTH & WAVENEY CCG RIGHT NOW The consultation on the proposal put forward by the Great Yarmouth & Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group and Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

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Help us set important rather than superficial targets – NSFT Quality Matters Survey closes 14th February

We are inviting all of our supporters to complete the NSFT Quality Matters Survey so that important rather than superficial quality issues are addressed by the NSFT Board in the forthcoming year. The survey ends on Friday 14 February so there are only a couple of days to complete it. It is very quick. Find

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Updated: Thursday 13th February: Urgent call to attend public consultation meeting on loss of ANOTHER 25 beds at NSFT

Next week, there is a unique and valuable opportunity for us to question and confront the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) Board members, management and local commissioners over the decision to close another 25 beds and the on-going cuts and chaos. We want to overwhelm the Trust and the commissioners not only with

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