Press Release: Victory! NSFT to reintroduce Assertive Outreach with £1m investment

UPDATE 06/05/2020: Sadly, this was an April Fool. The quotes from former Professor Jonathan Warren and Marie Gabriel are genuine and accurate, taken from the Board and Governors minutes. Jonathan and Marie just never bothered to tell anyone that they weren’t going to do it any longer, hence the April Fool. The clique and commissioners […]

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EDP: Opinion: Why we wanted to get hold of emails from NHS’ communications bosses

Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press explains: I have been writing about problems at our mental health service for this newspaper since 2012. In that time, I have sat through inquests of those let down by the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) and interviewed many grieving and angry families. I’ve also followed the

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EADT: Man killed in A14 collision had just left mental health ward at NSFT

Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: A 54-year-old man died after being hit by a lorry having only just left the West Suffolk Hospital site in Bury St Edmunds, an inquest heard. This is far from the first or only case of death or serious injury of an inpatient at Norfolk and

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EDP: ‘Fobbed off’: Family of grandmother attacked in care home hits out at mental health trust

Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The son of a dementia patient who died after she was attacked in a care home says he feels “fobbed off” by a promised investigation into her death. The Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) told the family of Doreen Livermore in January that it was

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The Thick of NSFT Comms: Digital Communications Manager, Band 7 AFC

Help toxic and failed mental health trust, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), ‘get away with it (again)‘ for £43,000 per annum in this Band 7 nonjob as Digital Communications Manager. You’ll need ‘excellent knowledge and experience of using Twitter, Instagram and Facebook’ and be paid more than most nurses. In fact, you’ll be

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EADT: ‘Our NHS staff deserve better’, watchdog warns over poor survey results

In a Special Report, Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: More NHS staff in Suffolk look forward to going to work – but rising numbers of workers are reporting being bullied, harassed or abused by managers. Thousands of health workers from across the region have had their say in the latest NHS

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EDP: Young people face five month waiting lists for mental health support

Jessica Frank-Keyes of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Children and young people with mental health issues are waiting up to five months for treatment in parts of Norfolk and Suffolk. Adolescents with mental health conditions in Great Yarmouth and Waveney are facing waiting lists for mental health support ranging from a week to access urgent

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EADT: Mum of university student Henry fears more deaths at troubled mental health trust

Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: The mother of a 21-year-old fashion student who killed himself after being released from a mental health hospital is “astonished” that Suffolk’s mental health trust has been kept in ‘special measures’ for so long. Henry Curtis-Williams, from Ipswich, was found dead in London in 2016 – just

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EDP: ‘Got away with it’ – NHS manager gloated about coverage of dead great-grandmother

Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: An NHS manager bragged that the service had “got away” with its failings being highlighted after the death of two dementia sufferers – because former Monty Python star Terry Jones had died. The Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) was criticised in an investigation into the death

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A Stitch-up is not Safe: Improvement doesn’t look like this

We’ve known the intended result of the inspection of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) since before Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspected the worst mental health trust in the country. We’ve heard rumours from many quarters that NSFT would be moved from ‘Inadequate’ to ‘Requires Improvement’ tomorrow for months, with the bureaucratic dinosaur known

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EADT: ‘Bubbly’ 22-year-old’s death prompts coroner to question online drug sales

Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: A coroner has questioned online drug sales after a “bubbly” 22-year-old from Suffolk managed to purchase a huge quantity of tablets from regulated websites. Gemma MacDonald, from Stowmarket, died on July 22 after taking a “massive” overdose of medication she bought online, an inquest in Ipswich

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EADT: Special Report: One year on from mental health trust’s damning review – what’s changed?

Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: Today marks a year since the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) was rated ‘inadequate’ for the third time in a row. The toleration of the underperformance of NSFT is a national scandal. The Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT)’s most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) report,

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EDP: Revealed: People waiting more than a DAY for emergency mental health treatment

Emily Townsend reports: Patients in mental health crisis are still waiting more than four hours to be seen in an emergency – with the longest delays going beyond an entire day. More than one in four ’emergency referrals’ in Suffolk and Norfolk (26%), were not assessed within four hours in September, according to the trust.

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The Guardian: Hundreds of mental health beds needed to end ‘shameful’ out-of-area care

Cuts in mental health beds have gone too far, leading to the “shameful practice” of patients being sent hundreds of miles from home to be treated, according to psychiatrists. The Royal College of Psychiatrists is calling for the NHS to urgently create hundreds of extra beds for people who are seriously mentally unwell in order to tackle

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A Stitch-up is not Safe: Campaign writes to Care Quality Commission regarding NSFT inspection

Today, we have written to Care Quality Commission (CQC) expressing our concerns about the inspection currently underway at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), echoing the views of many stakeholders. While we desperately want NSFT to improve, any improvement needs to be genuine rather predetermined for the convenience of the NHS bureaucracy. CQC cannot

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EDP: ‘It destroys lives’ – Teen’s dismay at 18-month mental health delay

Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: It is a year since inspectors slammed the region’s mental health service for making patients wait too long for help. This week they are back. Has anything changed? Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Chloe Saunders needs help. The 17-year old has been trying to

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EDP: Improving figures, but mental health campaigners say more needs to be done or ‘expect more deaths’

Donna-Louise Bishop of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Campaigners for better mental health provisions say more needs to be done to protect the regions’s most vulnerable patients from being sent hundreds of miles away for treatment. It comes following a meeting of the board of directors for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), in

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Beds Crisis: Chief Operating Officer Stuart Richardson’s paper to the Board vs The Truth in a Graph

This is Stuart Richardson’s paper on the beds crisis and the transportation of people which he is presenting as Chief Operating Officer of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) to the Board of NSFT tomorrow. Compare Richardson’s paper with the graph of NSFT’s actual performance below. The reasons for the meltdown of mental health

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EADT: Revealed: Harrowing stories of mental health patients highlighted ahead of under-fire trust’s inspection

Jake Foxford of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: Hundreds of damning stories from mental health patients in Suffolk will be considered in the next inspection of the region’s struggling NHS trust. The Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) will soon be inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after being rated inadequate three times

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