Audio: Sheila Preston, carer, interviewed on BBC Radio Norfolk Breakfast Show

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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Audio: Emma Corlett interviewed on BBC Radio Suffolk

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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Campaign’s response to the consultation launched on NSFT’s astonishing proposal to cut another 25 beds in Great Yarmouth and Waveney

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

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UNISON are angered over NSFT’s loss of contract

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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BBC: Norfolk County Council takes back social care from trust (NSFT)

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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EDP Front Page: Mental Health Crisis deepens

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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Damning Report on NSFT from Healthwatch Suffolk

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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Ipswich Spy: Silent protest greets mental health cuts

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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EADT Suffolk: University students in region could help fill vacancies in mental health service

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

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Audio: Campaign supporter Jane Basham & NSFT Suffolk Director of Operations Debbie White interviewed on BBC Radio Suffolk

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?  

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EDP: Mental health trust for Norfolk and Suffolk could face financial penalties over poor performance

  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

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EDP: Is Nick Clegg’s action plan a solution to the challenges facing mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk?

Terry Skyrme, who works for the mental health crisis solution team in Norfolk, is one of the leading campaigners against the cuts and said it was like they were going around and around in circles. “Nobody is grasping the nettle. The Trust have managed the change really badly, but at the end of the day

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Norwich Free Advertiser: NSFT vacancies at Norvic Clinic, Thorpe St Andrew, Hammerton Court, Norwich and the Fermoy Unit, King’s Lynn

You couldn’t make this up. While NSFT plans to spend £7.3 million on redundancies, it is running expensive press advertisements desperately trying to recruit temporary staff via NHS Professionals. Thanks to the campaign supporter who spotted this press advertisement and sent it to us. Let us know if you see any more – is NSFT

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EDP raises mental health funding as one of eight regional issues PM needs to know about

It is fantastic to see the EDP raising mental health funding as one of the eight issues it believes David Cameron needs to know about our region: MENTAL HEALTH: An investigation by the EDP last autumn revealed that the Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust had ordered a review into the reasons behind a spike in

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Financial scandal at NSFT: The Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk & Suffolk exposes the truth

Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) will overspend on compulsory and voluntary redundancies by a staggering 52.1% this financial year. That means it has spent £2.5 million pounds more than it has in its budget on redundancies. £2.5 million is enough to pay for an additional ten hospital beds for two years or safely-staffed

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HOSC: What has gone wrong with the ‘radical redesign? at NSFT

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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Response to NSFT’s letter refuting the Campaign’s Open Letter of 25/11/13

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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