NSFT becoming the first mental health trust to be put into special measures was inevitable following the damning CQC inspection and the financial black hole.
Our main concern is that service users and frontline staff are not made to pay the price of the NSFT Board’s wasted millions with further cuts to already inadequate services.
Commissioners need to agree a unified mental health strategy with NSFT and provide realistic long term funding which has not been the case thus far. We share with Monitor a common aim: the quickest possible turnaround of NSFT for the benefit of patients.