23rd Day of Lent: Going without the support of our own MPs – Open Letter

Dear Norfolk & Suffolk Members of Parliament, We are a group of mental health staff, people who use services and members of the community who are deeply concerned about the impact of cuts forced on our mental health trust. Today we are walking side by side from the office of Ben Gummer MP in Ipswich

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Urgent: National journalist and broadcaster needs our help!

A highly-respected national broadcaster and journalist urgently needs to talk to those with knowledge or experience of using mental health services and the impact of the savage cuts and ‘radical redesign’ at Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT). They want to hear from people who uses mental health services, carers, family members and professionals

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22nd Day of Lent: Going without… family life and school

Elizabeth writes: “I live with my parents and younger brother in rural Norfolk. During the summer last year, my older brother, who is under the care of the Youth Team came back to live with us, following problems with his land-lady. During early December, we had to call the police out, and then, in mid-December,

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21st Day of Lent: Going without… Carlton Court

Orwell Housing Association moves into Carlton Court One of the saddest moments of the sham consultation meeting in Beccles was in many respects the most damning. A former governor of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), and pretty much the sole member of the audience to support the NSFT Board, said what a wonderful job

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16th Day of Lent: Going without care in the community

Ruth writes: “As a carer it is a relief to be able to access the campaign’s website to access information about the impact of perceived cuts in funding. We carers need to prepare ourselves for a future where the care of loved ones living in the community with life-long mental health needs will receive a

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Sham Consultation: Last chance to pillory the NSFT Board – Tuesday 25/3/2014 – Beccles

Please, please do attend the sham consultation in Beccles on Tuesday 25th March 2014 between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. The acting Chief Executive, Medical Director and Operations Director of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) are being forced to publicly account for their ‘radical redesign’ for the last time by Great Yarmouth & Waveney

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

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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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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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

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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

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EDP: Mental health trust looks overseas to help fill hundreds of vacancies

A very good piece of reporting from Adam Gretton of the EDP covering the recruitment crisis at NSFT and its desperate plans to recruit from Portugal and Ireland despite making skilled and experienced staff redundant at a cost of £7.3 million – many of whom haven’t even left yet! A mental health trust, which has

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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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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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