Do you support the aims of the mental health campaign? ELEVEN governor vacancies at NSFT

URGENT: APPLICATIONS CLOSE ON WEDNESDAY 14TH NOVEMBER 2018 We already have several campaigners on the Council of Governors at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT). Although the repeated CQC failures of NSFT show that the Council of Governors has proven itself to be an embarrassment at either representing the public, services users and carers […]

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

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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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

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

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

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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EDP: Tranquilisation changes came too little too late for Norwich man, says sister

Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: “The sister of a mentally ill man who died after being tranquillised in hospital has slammed the region’s mental health trust for not addressing problems with the practice sooner. And a inquest into his death found failings in the care he received from Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation

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EDP: Mother of Norwich man who died of heroin overdose blames institutional failings of mental health trust

Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The family of a man who died of a heroin overdose at his Norwich flat blamed “institutional failings of the mental health trust” for the circumstances surrounding his death. Mr Jacobs’ friends told Norfolk’s Coroner’s Court this morning it was here Mr Jacobs was victim to the

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EDP: Mother of Norwich patient says son with schizophrenia could have been saved and blasts mental health services

Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The last time Sheila Preston saw her son alive was Christmas 2014. Almost two years later, two police officers knocked on her door at 1.30am at her home in Mendham on the Norfolk-Suffolk border. They had come to tell her Leo had been found dead in his

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