Ruth writes: “As a carer it is a relief to be able to access the campaign’s website to access information about the impact of perceived cuts in funding. We carers need to prepare ourselves for a future where the care of loved ones living in the community with life-long mental health needs will receive a […]
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Karen says: “Gateway House, our ‘The Office’-esque building on a business park in Wymondham which has no facilities whatsoever to see service users, is currently home to leaving cards, bunting and endless leaving do’s. By the end of March, around one quarter of our colleagues in already overstretched community teams will have been paid to
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If ever there was a time to reward great journalism with a physical newspaper purchase, today is it – and the double page spread graphic exposure of NSFTCrisis is brilliant – frame-it-on-the-wall good. Award-winning Adam Gretton in the EDP reports: “The mental health trust for Norfolk and Suffolk, which is trying to fill hundreds of
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Christina writes: “My name is Christina and I care for a dear friend with mental health problems that are causing suffering due to cuts in the Mental health trust here in Norwich, Norfolk and Suffolk. I have been caring for her since December last year, not long but I have known that she has suffered
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Dr Geraldine Strathdee, NHS England’s national clinical director for mental health recently told Community Care: “I know there are a number [of Trusts] saying ‘we won’t have a crisis/home treatment team. Instead we’ll put that crisis team function, or that assertive outreach function, into generic services’. I’d urge anyone going with that approach to really
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Footyfan says: “When is this NHS Trust going to realise that whilst community-based care and treatment is great and looks to be the way forward, they must provide adequate resources for it to work? As a family that accesses this service I have to say the organisation of it is terrible; we worked out the
If you at all interested in the crisis in mental health in Norfolk and Suffolk, this is an essential recording. Listen to the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) executives directly challenged by service users, carers, staff and members of the public, many of them members of this campaign. Congratulations to Great Yarmouth &
North Norfolk MP and health minister Norman Lamb said: “The CQC has found that the hospital is sometimes failing to respect privacy, dignity and independence. It is now critical that the trust responds with a genuine sense of urgency to rectify the concerns raised by the CQC.” Emma Corlett, Unison union spokeswoman for staff at
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After the publication of a highly critical report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the Director of Nursing, Quality & Patient Safety of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is now claiming that NSFT has ‘taken urgent steps’ to put the problems right. The Director of Nursing claims that ‘We have already taken steps to recruit
The full CQC report can be downloaded as a pdf. Some excerpts, which can be summarised as: lack of community staff, lack of beds and organisational chaos. If this is the situation now, what will it be like at the end of March when more than one quarter of community team staff will have been
Find below a record of our live Twitter coverage of the Great Yarmouth & Waveney CCG and Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) public ‘consultation.’ We distributed about 100 copies of an open letter written by NSFT nurses in Norwich caring for people from Great Yarmouth & Waveney which exposes this ‘consultation’ as a sham.
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We are inviting all of our supporters to complete the NSFT Quality Matters Survey so that important rather than superficial quality issues are addressed by the NSFT Board in the forthcoming year. The survey ends on Friday 14 February so there are only a couple of days to complete it. It is very quick. Find
If you have an Apple device and have problems viewing below you can view the video directly on youtube. Thanks to the Campaign member who sent in this video.
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If you use an Apple product and have problems viewing the video below, click here to view on youtube. There are, of course, the usual Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust denials and excuses too – this time from acting NSFT Chief Executive Andrew Hopkins. Strange, isn’t it, that there was no acknowledgement of problems with
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This powerful and in-depth interview was on early this morning but should be compulsory listening for all those concerned about mental healthcare in Norfolk & Suffolk: It is astonishing and illuminating that Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), with more than one thousand administrators, a large in-house Comms Team and a Board
As well as Ruth’s excellent interview, Emma Corlett from Unison and a service user on the telephone from the Norvic Clinic raise their safety concerns as part of the main news item which also features Norman Lamb, Care Minister and local MP, appearing to publicly back the concerns raised by the Campaign and staff!
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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Dear Colleagues, Norfolk Council’s Cabinet has today (Monday, 27 January) agreed that the social care mental health service for adults of working age should return to their direct management after the end of the current section 75 partnership agreement with the Trust ends later this year. Their aim for the new arrangement is to deliver
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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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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