Press release: Campaign investigation into the deeply-flawed Mental Health Strategy written by BCG for Norfolk and Waveney STP: Part I

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We have already expressed our concerns about the Norfolk and Waveney STP’s Mental Health Strategy. Now, our worst fears have been confirmed. Whilst the Mental Health Strategy contains some fine words, it has little concrete information about the future of mental health services. Worryingly, the Mental Health Strategy was not co-produced with service users and […]

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EDP: Campaigners ask where mental health nurses will come from under new GP surgery plan

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Concerns have been raised over where mental health nurses to be placed in doctors’ surgeries are going to come from amid a shortage in the profession. A £500,000 review into Norfolk and Waveney’s health system identified that 127 mental health staff would be needed to work in

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BBC News: Norfolk and Waveney mental health: Dissatisfaction with care

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Nic Rigby of the BBC reports: More than 80% of people are dissatisfied with mental health services for adults in Norfolk and Waveney, a report has found. The survey, by the Norfolk and Waveney Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP), said 40% did not know how to access services at all. A patients group criticised the

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Press Release: Norfolk and Waveney Adult Mental Health Strategy written by BCG

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A spokesperson for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: We already know from service users, carers, front line staff and three Inadequate ratings from the care regulator, CQC, that mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk have been in crisis for the past five years. What alarms us about

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Call to action: Norfolk and Waveney STP mental health consultation event: FREE: Monday 19th November, 1800-2030, Assembly House, Norwich NR2 1RQ

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Norfolk and Waveney’s so-called STP is holding consultations across Norfolk with a view to creating a ten year strategy for mental health. The STP bureaucrats are talking about a Stalinist ten-year plan when mental health services are in crisis NOW. Of course, the bureaucrats will be long gone before the ten years are up, with

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Chronology of a scandal: Antek Lejk’s role in the out-of-hours deaths scandal at NHS Cornwall

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The Chair of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), Gary Page, has been claiming that the role of Antek Lejk in the out-of-hours scandal at NHS Cornwall was peripheral. However, we have spoken to clinicians and campaigners in Cornwall who have told us that Antek Lejk was central and a driving force of what

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Press statement: Untrue and misleading statements made by Alistair Campbell

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Yesterday, Alistair Campbell told the Eastern Daily Press: “On the one hand they’re saying services are terrible, and on the other hand they’re saying we don’t want any change. But there’s a bit of a big inconsistency in that. If they’re not happy with the services then at least look at some of the changes

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Exclusive: First NSFT’s governors knew of the involvement of Antek Lejk’s Cornwall PCT in the out-of-hours deaths scandal was when they read about it in the EDP

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We have been told that the governors of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) were placed under what we consider to be inappropriate pressure to approve the appointment of Antek Lejk as its Chief Executive. The ballot was not secret. Even the usually compliant governors of NSFT had deep reservations after Mr Lejk’s poor

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Jobs for the Boys: NSFT facing possible legal action over the ‘appointment’ of Antek Lejk as Chief Executive

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Mr. Page, Please send us: a) the NSFT current Recruitment and Selection Policy as this is not available on the NSFT website; b) the current NSFT Equality Policy as the version published on the NSFT website was last revised ten years ago. Please send these documents, which should be readily available and are not, promptly.

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EDP: New mental health boss appointment branded ‘disastrous’ by campaigners

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The appointment of a new mental health boss has been branded “disastrous” by campaigners due to the new chief’s background in NHS funding. That means cuts. The STP’s own figures show that forty per cent of the ‘savings’ are due to funding not keeping up with inflation.

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Healthwatch Norfolk: Question Time: Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) Public Meeting 17/07/17

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UPDATE: We’ll be protesting about the terrible state of mental health services in Norfolk from 5 p.m. outside the venue before going in at 6 p.m. Join us! Healthwatch Norfolk is supposed to be the ‘consumer champion for health and social care’. Sadly, despite funding of £600,000 per year from Norfolk County Council, Healthwatch Norfolk

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Fact check: EDP: ‘Things are moving in the right direction’ at region’s mental health trust, says chief executive

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Geraldine Scott of the EDP ‘interviews’ Michael ‘Payrise’ Scott, the £175,000 per year Chief Executive of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT): The region’s mental health trust has reported it has seen financial growth at the same time as slashing its deficit for the first time in five years. That sounds great. Sadly, ‘slashing

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EDP: Norfolk clinical commissioning group one of just nine in England to miss mental health investment target as suicide rates soar

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: One of Norfolk’s clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) is due to fall short of the amount of money it should be putting towards mental health despite latest figures showing the number of suicides in the area has rocketed. Research from the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) has shown

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‘Doing a Hewitt’: Introducing the new Norfolk Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) Chair: Patricia ‘BUPA’ Hewitt

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What is it about Members of Parliament for Leicester? Patricia Hewitt was the Secretary of State for Health from 2005 until 2007. Despite being a Labour MP and supposed supporter of the NHS, after leaving the Cabinet Patricia Hewitt got herself a lucrative appointment as ‘special consultant’ to the world’s largest chemists, Alliance Boots, which

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Revolving Doors: EDP: ‘It really is a disgrace’ – Norfolk community health bosses anger union with staff wage cuts

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Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust (NCH&C) looks after thousands of patients a day through nurses and therapists visiting people in their homes, as well as in community hospitals, including Norwich Community Hospital on Bowthorpe Road. But it has angered Unison by increasing total board wages and

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Campaign speaking at Keep Our NHS Public meeting on Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs): Friday 11th November, Blackfriars Hall, Norwich, NR3 1AU at 6.30 p.m. All welcome.

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Members of our campaign will be speaking at the Keep Our NHS Public meeting on Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) on Friday 11th November at Blackfriars Hall, Norwich, NR3 1AU  6.30 – 8.30 p.m. Why not come along and listen? We are non-party political. We will happily to accept invitations from all mainstream political parties

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EDP: Third CCG boss resigns inside three months

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Nicholas Carding of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Dr Sue Crossman, chief officer of West Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), today announced she has resigned after seven years as the health commissioning lead for West Norfolk. It follows the resignations of Andy Evans, of Great Yarmouth and Waveney CCG, earlier this month, and Mark Taylor

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