The Independent: NHS consultant Dr Julian Beezhold in row over £1.2m for private clinic Milestones Hospital from cost-cutting trust
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Video: BBC Look East – Milestones
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13th Day of Lent: Going without £122,208 spent on the intranet
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
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
‘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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11th Day of Lent: Going without a CPN
Christina writes: “My name is Christina and I care for a dear friend with mental health problems that are causing suffering due to cuts in the Mental health trust here in Norwich, Norfolk and Suffolk. I have been caring for her since December last year, not long but I have known that she has suffered
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Response from North Norfolk CCG to AMHP letter highlighting bed crisis at NSFT
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
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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9th Day of Lent: Going without… hope
Sally writes: “Since the new Trust service strategy, my son will see his psychiatrist twice a year for a review of his medication and care plan. Over two decades I have attended every review my son has had. I found the last two of these reviews discouraging and frustrating. Medication is rarely altered. Care plans
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7th Day of Lent: Going without Suffolk MIND’s local support
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
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
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
5th Day of Lent: Going without a canteen
David says: “Therapists use many different tools. Some of my favourites use ladles and fish slices. Sharing a meal at a table does more than feed a patient’s body. It feeds our souls. Nourishing food garnished with tender humanity and a kind word, taken to a table and shared with other people whose lives are
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4th Day of Lent: Going without mandatory training required for professional registration
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
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
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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2nd Day of Lent: Going without adequate resources, reliable appointments or reasonable waiting times
Footyfan says: “When is this NHS Trust going to realise that whilst community-based care and treatment is great and looks to be the way forward, they must provide adequate resources for it to work? As a family that accesses this service I have to say the organisation of it is terrible; we worked out the
1st Day of Lent: Going without a face-to-face consultation with a psychiatrist for a whole year but being prescribed high potency mood-stabilisers anyway.
Rachel writes: “Meeting face-to-face with your psychiatrist is not for a chat. A consultation is imperative if the patient is to fully understand the nature of any medications they are prescribed and the possible and potentially very dangerous side-effects. The psychiatrist also has an opportunity to further know their patient and assess if the prescription
Community Care: Social workers alert Lamb to ‘unsafe and illegal’ mental health crisis care in his constituency
Read the full story written by the excellent Andy McNicoll by clicking on the image below:
Letter from Approved Mental Health Practitioners (AMHPs) of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) to North Norfolk CCG
The recipients of this letter were North Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) with copies to Great Yarmouth & Waveney CCG (Healtheast), Norwich CCG, Norman Lamb – Minister of State for Care and Support and MP for North Norfolk, Harold Bodmer – Director of Adult Care Social Services at Norfolk County Council and the Care Quality Commission