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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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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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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Video: Carer, Sheila Preston, and an anonymous service user interviewed by BBC Look East

If you use an Apple product and have problems viewing the video below, click here to view on youtube. There are, of course, the usual Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust denials and excuses too – this time from acting NSFT Chief Executive Andrew Hopkins. Strange, isn’t it, that there was no acknowledgement of problems with

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Audio: Emma Corlett interviewed on BBC Radio Suffolk

Campaign member and Unison media spokesperson Emma Corlett interviewed on BBC Radio Suffolk about Unison’s decision to raise a formal grievance and ask Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) to call an immediate halt to the ‘radical redesign’ ‘No response’ from NSFT.

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EDP: Shock Norfolk social care shake-up after serious concerns raised

This is a £4.3 million per annum contract lost for Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust  (NSFT) by the top-notch Executive Team: 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

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EDP raises mental health funding as one of eight regional issues PM needs to know about

It is fantastic to see the EDP raising mental health funding as one of the eight issues it believes David Cameron needs to know about our region: MENTAL HEALTH: An investigation by the EDP last autumn revealed that the Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust had ordered a review into the reasons behind a spike in

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On the ninth day of Christmas, the cuts took away… decent food

‘Maggie’ writes: “What a great start to the New Year! Cost cutting will, without fanfare, remove freshly-cooked food from the wards and take away the opportunity for patients, staff and relatives to buy a hot meal at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich by shutting the canteen this month. It is being ‘replaced’ by ‘airline meals’ and

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EDP: GPs refuse to increase funding despite mental health crisis

The EDP claims that the CCGs have decided to refuse any ‘significant’ increase in funding for mental health services despite the crisis and increasing demand. Read the usual excuses by clicking the image below. Or discover the human cost of inadequate mental health services in our 12 Cuts of Christmas campaign. Why not ask your GP

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On the fourth day of Christmas, the cuts took away… beds but not humanity

This is the powerful story ‘Dave’ wants us to share: I am supporting the campaign because it’s about time someone had the courage to speak out. I used to work in one of the crisis teams until recently. I had to transport a patient to a private hospital after being assessed and of course no

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On the second day of Christmas, NSFT took away… all my support

Here is the story ‘T’ wanted to tell, ‘Discharged without my involvement’: I’d been doing really well, and felt on a level for some time. The paranoia and voices never really went away, but with help of my Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) I’d got back on my feet. After hospital I stayed in a hostel,

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EADT: Suffolk: Bosses claim mental health services are heading towards a “national crisis”

At first, according to Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), it was a radical improvement to services and certainly not cuts to the front-line. Then, said NSFT, it wasn’t a crisis. Then, as recently as last week, Gary Page said it was a ‘so-called crisis’. Now, NSFT acknowledges there is a crisis but it

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BBC News: Norfolk and Suffolk health trust bosses told ‘improve or resign’

The media is now picking up our campaign: Campaigners have called on the board of a health trust to take urgent action to avert a “serious crisis” or resign. The Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk sent an open letter to directors of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. It called

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