Alison Armstrong
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EDP Data shows mental health trust has cut doctors and nurses – but chief disputes the figures
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: New data has revealed the number of doctors at the region’s mental health trust has shrunk over the last five years – […]
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Campaign statement on NHS Digital payroll data showing 52.7 increase in managers as more than twenty per cent of doctor and qualified nurses cut at NSFT over past five years
A spokesperson for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: “Since 2013, we have repeatedly warned about the increasing number of managers employed at NSFT […]
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BBC News: Directors at ‘unsafe’ mental health trust NSFT got pay rise
BBC News reports: Four directors at an “unsafe” mental health trust received £10k pay rises, despite failing to improve standards. As reported in the EADT, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation […]
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Greed: EADT: ‘Inadequate’ mental health trust NSFT slammed for directors’ £10,000 pay rises
Gemma Mitchell of the Eastern Anglian Daily Times has one of the most shocking exclusives we have ever read about the Board of Shame of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation […]
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EDP: Call made to ‘end culture of pay outs’ in public sector – as it was revealed mental health boss will work six more months
On the front page of the Eastern Daily Press, Geraldine Scott reports: Call made to ‘end culture of pay outs’ in public sector – as it was revealed mental health […]
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Greed: EDP: £54,000 payment for ex-NSFT boss who got top job at Colchester Hospital three months later
NHS managers wonder why we have a low opinion of them… Matt Stott of the East Anglian Daily Times (EADT) reports: Alison Armstrong resigned as director of operations at the […]
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Fixed, Flawed Farce: Part 1: ‘No decisions about me, without me’
Below is a list of the people interviewed in the so-called ‘wide range of engagement meetings with local stakeholders’ during the £58,000 Beds Review. Thirty-nine are senior employees of Norfolk […]
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EADT: Damning report finds Suffolk failing some children with special education needs leaving families ‘frustrated and confused’
Andrew Hirst of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: Families have had to “fight every step of the way” to get help for the children with the greatest needs in […]
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CAMHS Crisis: in accordance with the Children Act 2004 (Joint Area Reviews) Regulations 2015, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (HMCI) has determined that a written statement of action is required because of significant weaknesses
Many mental health services for children and young people (CAMHS) and for people with learning disabilities in Suffolk are provided by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT). NSFT is […]
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EDP: ‘Something has to change’ – Southwold mental health activist Sarah Barrett speaks out after she was hospitalised 206 miles away from home
No wonder the Eastern Daily Press has been shortlisted for a mental health journalism award. Andrew Papworth reports: A teenage mental health patient sent to hospital 206 miles away from home […]
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EADT: Death of Harriet Philo Powell highlighted ‘weaknesses’ in mental health care
Will Lodge of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: The death of an aspiring art student from the Essex/Suffolk border highlighted “systemic failings” and “weaknesses” in the Suffolk mental health […]
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EADT: NSFT curtailing psychiatric liaison services (PLS) in hospitals “without warning or consultation”
Andrew Hirst of the East Anglian Daily Times reports shocking news: Labour has joined calls demanding more money be made available for mental health services in Suffolk, warning that reported […]
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The Daily Gazette and Essex County Standard: UPDATED: Popular… student… should have been followed up by Wellbeing Service
Katherine Palmer of The Daily Gazette and Essex County Standard reports: A TEENAGER… should have been followed up by a mental health wellbeing service, an inquest has heard. Harriet Philo-Powell […]
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An NSFT Mother and Carer responds to the tragic death of Henry Curtis-Williams
A mother and carer responds to the tragic death of Henry Curtis-Williams: “Again another young person has died when he should have been protected from the dangers of mental illness. Assessed […]
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Daily Mail: Parents whose fashion student son, 21, died five days after being released from a mental health unit say police failed to tell them when they found him ‘staring over the side of a bridge’
Keiligh Baker of the Daily Mail reports: The parents of a student who took his own life just five days after being released from a psychiatric unit are ‘distraught’ that […]
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Kept in the Dark: Daily Gazette: ‘inquest… to be adjourned after finding out the professions of two NHS workers were not as they had understood.”
The Daily Gazette and Essex County Standard reports: AN inquest into the sudden death of a teenager has been adjourned as new information has come to light. Harriet Philo-Powell died […]
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Complaint letter: “Don’t campaign to save… campaign for a radically different new service… with entirely new management”
A service user of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) writes: “I am a user of this service for more than fifteen years. In the last four years the […]
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Yet another death: Enough is enough
Today, another young women has died after Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) ignored her family’s desperate pleas for help. Yet another ‘unexpected death‘ to add to the statistics. Yet […]
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EDP: Mental health survey’s ‘damning’ findings to be used to hold Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Trust to account
Andrew Hirst of the EDP reports: The Stepping Forward survey results presented in Ipswich at the Suffolk User Forum event was intended to show how far the NSFT had improved […]
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Healthwatch Suffolk: Meeting on 18th November 2015 at East of England Co-op Education Centre, Ipswich IP4 1JW
Healthwatch Suffolk and Suffolk User Forum have organised a meeting to give initial feedback on their survey of those who rely on mental health services in Suffolk: “Our initial survey […]
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