Campaign opinion: First Anniversary: Stuart Richardson, Chief Operating Officer, NSFT

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Stuart Richardson was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) under the leadership of former Chief Executive, Antek Lejk and former Chair, Gary Page and started his job on 1st August 2018. One year ago today. Managing beds is his responsibility. In the six months immediately before Stuart Richardson […]

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EDP: ‘The system is broken’ – emergency mental health 999 incidents double

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Dominic Gilbert of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Urgent mental health-related incidents attended by police officers have almost doubled in four years as pressures on the 999 service grow. Coinciding with the ‘radical redesign’ and ruthless cuts to mental health community, crisis and home treatment teams and beds; the closure of assertive outreach and homeless

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EDP: Children and young people with mental ill health ‘slipped through the net’ as staff were forced to make own waiting lists

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Staff working in children and young people’s mental health were forced to make their own waiting lists as official data was so inaccurate and cases “slipped through the net”. Those were the findings of a report into services provided by the region’s mental health trust when inspectors

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EDP: Woman saw 25 mental health professionals in 14 months before her death, coroner’s report reveals

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A coroner has issued a warning over the death of a young woman who saw more than 25 members of the region’s mental health crisis team in the 14 months before she took her own life. We’ve been talking about the lack of any focus from Norfolk

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Reaction to the management ‘radical restructure’ and return of Amy Eagle as Deputy Chief Operating Officer of NSFT

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Here is just some of the feedback we have received: Closing services, discharging SUs, cutting care, death rate rises. Recognise it? Radical redesign in case you’ve forgotten. Carers and SUs can’t ever forget or forgive That appointment is shocking, they don’t seem to be taking seriously the risk to life of these decisions, we are

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EDP: Campaigners protesting against lack of mental health services in north Norfolk

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David Bale of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Protestors gathered on Cromer pier today and carried placards and banners to highlight the number of people affected by mental health issues. Even in the appalling weather, about eighty people attended the protest. The protest follows a number of suicides by young people in north Norfolk. Jenna

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Video: Amy Eagle’s contribution to NSFT’s corporate video for the first CQC inspection vs BBC coverage of Alexander Report

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Compare what the new deputy Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), Amy Eagle, said in NSFT’s corporate videos for the first Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection with what her staff said in the Alexander Report interviews at the same time. We forced publication of the secret report a year

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Disastrous NSFT Chief Executive Antek Lejk ousted

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Marie Gabriel, the new Chair of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), doesn’t mess about. Antek Lejk should never have been appointed in the first place with his track record and against the wishes of service users and carers. As commissioner, Antek Lejk starved NSFT of funds. As Chief Executive, Antek Lejk led the

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Press release: Campaign investigation into the deeply-flawed Mental Health Strategy written by BCG for Norfolk and Waveney STP: Part I

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We have already expressed our concerns about the Norfolk and Waveney STP’s Mental Health Strategy. Now, our worst fears have been confirmed. Whilst the Mental Health Strategy contains some fine words, it has little concrete information about the future of mental health services. Worryingly, the Mental Health Strategy was not co-produced with service users and

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EDP: Campaigners ask where mental health nurses will come from under new GP surgery plan

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Concerns have been raised over where mental health nurses to be placed in doctors’ surgeries are going to come from amid a shortage in the profession. A £500,000 review into Norfolk and Waveney’s health system identified that 127 mental health staff would be needed to work in

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The Guardian: Nuwan Dissanayaka: Jamie is psychotic and won’t go outside. Mental health services are failing him

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This article from Nuwan Dissanayaka needs to be read by everybody with an interest in mental health. Dr. Dissanayaka is really worth following on Twitter. We’re delighted Nuwan’s views are getting wider attention in the national press. Dr. Dissanayaka is the consultant psychiatrist in the Assertive Outreach team in Leeds. Of course, assertive outreach at

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NHS Staff Survey 2018 – Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is appalling – yet again – yet again

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Yet again, the NHS Staff Survey results are appalling. Front line staff have been ‘led’ by overpaid muppets for far too long. With the publication of these results, the ‘leadership’ of the Chief Executive of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), Antek Lejk, has now been rejected by front line staff as well as service

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The Thick of: NSFT Comms: New role for Head of Recovery and Participation

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NSFT Comms writes: Our Head of Recovery and Participation is to take up a new role to drive through urgent operational matters while making the case for reintroducing primary care link workers across Norfolk and Waveney. There is no employee better placed than [CENSORED FOLLOWING PREVIOUS LEGAL THREATS FROM NSFT] to make the case for

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Campaign Cartoon: Director of Corporate Affairs and Communications Rebecca Driver quits NSFT: Veni! Vedi! Verti!

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“I came! I saw! I turned around!” The Director of Corporate Affairs and Communications of the worst-run mental health trust in the NHS, Rebecca Driver, only appointed just before Christmas, demonstrates her commitment to mental health, her faith in Antek Lejk and her loyalty to NSFT by quitting in the New Year. Let’s bet there

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Mental health trust Chief Executive Antek Lejk sends email to staff and seeks to meet MPs

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Antek Lejk, the disastrous appointment as Chief Executive of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has written an email to all staff. I am writing to bring you up-to-date with the progress we have been making since our CQC inspection results were published, with particular focus on the work which has taken place over

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The Guardian: Ministers urged to act over Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust

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Matthew Weaver of The Guardian reports: The health secretary, Matt Hancock, is facing mounting calls to intervene in England’s worst performing mental health trust after it was rated inadequate for a third time. There have been more than 250 extra deaths in Norfolk and Suffolk over the past five years as a result of the

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Antek Lejk’s Game of Shame: NSFT Edition™

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Are you demoralised by the five years of scandalous human misery and deaths caused by the cuts and chaos at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT)? Are you worried by the impending and atrocious inspection report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC)? Allow Antek Lejk, the Chief Executive of NSFT who took his job

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Call to action: Norfolk and Waveney STP mental health consultation event: FREE: Monday 19th November, 1800-2030, Assembly House, Norwich NR2 1RQ

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Norfolk and Waveney’s so-called STP is holding consultations across Norfolk with a view to creating a ten year strategy for mental health. The STP bureaucrats are talking about a Stalinist ten-year plan when mental health services are in crisis NOW. Of course, the bureaucrats will be long gone before the ten years are up, with

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EDP Front Page: Is ‘remote, awful and inhumane’ mental health support in north Norfolk behind a spate of young men’s deaths?

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In investigative reporting that is worthy of a national journalism award, Jessica Frank-Keyes of the Eastern Daily Press writes: Grieving parents and a retired GP say “remote, awful and inhumane” mental health support is leaving young men in north Norfolk at a heightened risk of taking their own lives. In recent months two young men

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