Campaign has achieved its first result! Terry Skyrme, of the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk and a crisis resolution team member at NSFT, said mental health services locally were in “dire crisis” and said 19 patients were placed outside of the two counties two weeks ago and eight of […]
The original pdf version can be downloaded here. A contribution to Norfolk County Council’s Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee from the Campaign to save Mental Health Services in Norfolk & Suffolk January 2014 “Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally” John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory
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The Trust responded to our Campaign’s Open Letter of 25/11/13 with a letter circulated to Trust Governors and partner organisations (but not us) which attempted to refute our contention that the service is in crisis, and alleging certain inaccuracies in our statement. It should be pointed out that not one member of front-line staff, service users
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Emma Corlett says: “The whole point of the campaign was that people were brave enough to come forward and talk about their experiences. So for someone to come forward and say it is not true is quite offensive. We are keen for them [NSFT] to engage with the campaign and hear from people the reality
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Gary Page, NSFT Chair, emailed all NSFT staff on 10th January 2014: “Dear Colleagues, As the first working week of the New Year ends, I wanted to share with you my reflections on last year and hopes for 2014. I know 2013 was difficult for many staff and the Trust overall. Implementation of the Service
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You can download the original leaflet in pdf format to print or distribute. MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ARE IN SEVERE CRISIS: cuts to psychiatric beds, so that patients are being admitted hundreds of miles away from home staff cuts to community and crisis teams, so that patients in the community are not receiving the care they need key
‘Sarah’ tell us her experiences: I have worked for the NHS for over 30 years and have been a union health and safety representative for almost as long. My role is to try to ensure that Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is a safe and secure place for everyone who works and receives
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We have been contacted by a number of people who have concerns about the level of support available from drug and alcohol services, run by Norfolk Recovery Partnership (NRP) since April 2013. These are the views of “Matt & Tina”, two users of the services provided by NRP: “We are currently being asked to give feedback
It can be terrifying to work in NSFT’s medium secure facilities at the moment. ‘Fred’ tells us what it is like: “The cuts have been having a worsening impact upon secure services. There have been ward closures and staffing cuts in forensic psychiatry too. This is my story. Recently, the working environment has started to get
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‘Maggie’ writes: “What a great start to the New Year! Cost cutting will, without fanfare, remove freshly-cooked food from the wards and take away the opportunity for patients, staff and relatives to buy a hot meal at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich by shutting the canteen this month. It is being ‘replaced’ by ‘airline meals’ and
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Here ‘Mary’ and ‘Jo’ tell their story of the ‘radical redesign’: “We have worked in Early Intervention (EI) in psychosis for nearly twenty years between us. EI is our passion, it has a strong evidence base and it is the service that all have a right to, regardless of where they live. Early Intervention in
