Next week, there is a unique and valuable opportunity for us to question and confront the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) Board members, management and local commissioners over the decision to close another 25 beds and the on-going cuts and chaos. We want to overwhelm the Trust and the commissioners not only with […]
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If you use an Apple product and have problems viewing the video below, click here to view on youtube. There are, of course, the usual Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust denials and excuses too – this time from acting NSFT Chief Executive Andrew Hopkins. Strange, isn’t it, that there was no acknowledgement of problems with
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This powerful and in-depth interview was on early this morning but should be compulsory listening for all those concerned about mental healthcare in Norfolk & Suffolk: It is astonishing and illuminating that Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), with more than one thousand administrators, a large in-house Comms Team and a Board
As well as Ruth’s excellent interview, Emma Corlett from Unison and a service user on the telephone from the Norvic Clinic raise their safety concerns as part of the main news item which also features Norman Lamb, Care Minister and local MP, appearing to publicly back the concerns raised by the Campaign and staff!
Sheila Preston tells the BBC what it is like to be the carer of a son with schizophrenia reliant upon Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and supports both the Campaign and staff unions. Please tell others about this important interview and encourage them to listen to it. It is astonishing and
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Campaign member and Unison media spokesperson Emma Corlett interviewed on BBC Radio Suffolk about Unison’s decision to raise a formal grievance and ask Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) to call an immediate halt to the ‘radical redesign’ ‘No response’ from NSFT.
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Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) proposes to reduce by a further seventeen the number of beds for older people with dementia or psychiatric conditions and another eight acute adult psychiatric beds will also go – a net loss of twenty five beds. This is an unforgivable proposal when there is already a bed
A noticeable lack of gobbledegook. Well done Terry! Comment below or in our forums.
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Dear Colleagues, Norfolk Council’s Cabinet has today (Monday, 27 January) agreed that the social care mental health service for adults of working age should return to their direct management after the end of the current section 75 partnership agreement with the Trust ends later this year. Their aim for the new arrangement is to deliver
UNISON hit back today claiming that no one can make their mind up about running this service. Jeff Keighley, Regional Organiser for UNISON criticised both parties in their handling of this contract. “We have been petitioning the trust to improve services in the midst of heavy restructuring, downbanding of staff into lower skilled posts and
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Crisis: What crisis? Norfolk County Council is to take responsibility for the service back from Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust from September. A council meeting in November heard concerns over its poor performance. A spokesman for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: “It is very disappointing but sadly
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Crisis: What crisis? Serious concerns that social care for adults with mental health issues in Norfolk is not good enough has led to the county council taking responsibility for the service away from the mental health trust. Care of vulnerable Norfolk adults with mental health problems suffered a fresh blow after the plug was pulled
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This is a £4.3 million per annum contract lost for Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) by the top-notch Executive Team: Serious concerns that social care for adults with mental health issues in Norfolk is not good enough has led to the county council taking responsibility for the service away from the mental health
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Service User views on NSFT Services between April 2013 and January 2014: Preliminary Report to Suffolk Health Scrutiny Committee, January 2014 [The report is reproduced here without amendment apart from the highlighting in red of key phrases by us.] 1. Summary This paper summarises views expressed to Healthwatch Suffolk (HWS) by NSFT service users from
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Jane Basham, Labour Parliamentary Candidate for South Suffolk, organised yesterday’s protest, and spoke with Ipswich Spy afterwards. “I attended most of the Health Scrutiny meeting today. Despite a damning report by HealthWatch Suffolk and a host of challenging questions by Health Scrutiny Councillors the Directors of NSFT stuck to their guns – there is no
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Mental health chiefs in Suffolk will look to university students in the region in a recruitment drive aimed at reducing the high number of vacancies in the service. The admission came from representatives of the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) during a meeting of the county council’s health scrutiny committee yesterday. They said
From the complacent way Debbie White is talking, you’d never guess that Healthwatch Suffolk had issued a damning report to Suffolk County Council Health Scrutiny Committee that same morning, would you?
Terry Skyrme, mental health worker and campaigner, asked the commissioners whether they were aware 13 pre-discharge beds at Hellesdon Hospital were about to close. “Have you been aware of the bed crisis for the last two years? The crisis is much, much worse with patients being sent to Harrogate, Brighton, Dorking and Weston-super-mare. It
