Jonathon Fagge
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EDP: Revealed: The lucrative exit packages and rising wages for Norfolk and Waveney’s NHS chiefs
Nicholas Carding of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Spending on wages for senior health bosses in Norfolk and Waveney has risen by nearly 15pc in the last three years – […]
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EDP: How can they justify this?
Nicholas Carding of the EDP reports: Senior managers at Norfolk’s four clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) pocketed more than £100,000 in pay rises between 2013/14 and 2014/15, the latest figures available, […]
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BBC News: Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust plans £36m savings
Michael Scott has announced a further £36 million of cuts/savings at Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) on top of the £44 million cuts/savings of the radical redesign which […]
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BBC News: Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust spent £600,000 on out-of-area beds IN ONE MONTH
The BBC reports: Money spent on sending Norfolk and Suffolk mental health patients to other parts of England almost tripled last month to £600,000, new figures show. A spokesman for […]
Bed Crisis, Campaigning, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Financial crisis, Gary's Page, In NSFT's words, Norman Lamb, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis, Save Ashcroft, Section 75 -
EDP Editorial: This practice is terrible, so why is it still happening?
This practice is terrible, so why is it still happening? Doctors, patients and politicians all agree that sending people with mental health problems hundreds of miles away to get a bed is an awful […]
Bed Crisis, Campaigning, Dangerous, Friends, Gary's Page, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Press, Questions for the Board -
Monday 24th November: Campaign supporting NHS staff at NSFT
NHS trade unions are striking and we are supporting them. Do join us! Front-line NHS staff were denied a meagre one per cent pay rise for 2015/16 following the government’s […]
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BBC News: Mental health ‘starved of resources’, says former coroner
Well said, William Armstrong, Chairman of Healthwatch, former Norfolk Coroner and current Sheriff of Norwich: Mental health services are being “starved of resources”, the chairman of a health watchdog in […]
Bed Crisis, Community Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, Norman Lamb, NSFT Cuts, Press, Questions for the Board -
Disintegration of Health and Social Care in Care Minister Norman Lamb’s own Constituency
North Norfolk MP and Minister of State at the Department of Health responsible for mental health, Norman Lamb, has been very quiet about the collapse of the Section 75 agreement […]
Bed Crisis, Community Crisis, CQC Inspection, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Financial crisis, Gary's Page, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis, Section 75 -
In NSFT’s words: Bed pressure
“Use of ‘red leave’ bed’s to manage patients locally, meaning using beds deemed to be held for patients considered to be potentially at risk by inpatient teams. Increased demands on staffing to manage high turnover of […]
Bed Crisis, CAMHS Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, HealthEast Consultation, In NSFT's words, NSFT Cuts, Questions for the Board, s136 Crisis, Sham Consultation -
In NSFT’s words: Unallocated cases
“Inability to provide an individual practitioner to every Service User in Central Adult Community There are a growing number of unallocated clinical cases in the Central Locality who require Care Coordination or Lead Care Professional alignment which could result in a lack of […]
Community Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, In NSFT's words, NSFT Cuts, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis, Section 75 -
BBC: Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust funding concerns
Nic Rigby of the BBC reports: A mental health trust covering an area where care minister Norman Lamb is MP has warned it is struggling to provide a “safe and […]
Bed Crisis, CAMHS Crisis, Cashless Concordat, Community Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Financial crisis, Gary's Page, NSFT Cuts, Press, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis, s136 Crisis -
EDP: New chief’s pledge to open new mental health beds in Norwich
At last, after a year of campaigning, Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has finally acknowledged that the ‘so-called bed crisis’ is a real bed crisis and that beds […]
Bed Crisis, Financial crisis, HealthEast Consultation, NSFT Cuts, s136 Crisis, Sham Consultation -
Audio: Campaigner Emma Corlett of Unison interviewed on BBC Radio Norfolk about massive cuts envisaged by NSFT’s 5 Year Strategic Plan
We have already written about the massive cuts envisaged by the 5 Year Plan submitted by Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) to its regulator, Monitor. At the NSFT […]
Campaigning, Cashless Concordat, Dangerous, Gary's Page, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Press, Questions for the Board -
EDP: Mental health trust warns of more jobs cuts in Norfolk and Suffolk as part of plans to make £44m more savings
Campaigners have pledged to lobby Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust’s (NSFT) board of directors meeting today over a new plan, which says that extra savings of £44m would need […]
Bed Crisis, CAMHS Crisis, Campaigning, Cashless Concordat, Clozapine Crisis, Community Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Press, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis -
NSFT pulls its Five Year Strategic Plan from the internet
But you can still read our copy of the five year strategic plan here. The plan begins on page 20 of the pdf. Strange the way it disappeared after we criticised […]
Bed Crisis, CAMHS Crisis, Campaigning, Community Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Gary's Page, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, PR Crisis, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis -
26th June 2014: Help us oppose the NSFT Board’s five year plan for further ‘savings’ of £44.1 million, 200 more job losses and more reorganisations and chaos
Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) Chair, Gary Page, is too busy watching the football in sunny Brazil to attend the next public Board of Directors meeting at The Green […]
Bed Crisis, CAMHS Crisis, Campaigning, Community Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Press, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis -
NSFT seeks to reduce out of area placements by refusing emergency admissions rather than by providing necessary beds
A member of the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) crisis team writes: “NSFT seems determined to reduce the number of out of area placements but not by providing […]
Bed Crisis, Community Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Questions for the Board -
BBC: Norfolk and Suffolk mental health patients in 200-mile bed trek
“Some mental health patients in Suffolk and Norfolk are having to travel more than 200 miles (321km) for a bed, it has emerged. Health secretary Jeremy Hunt said the situation […]
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EDP: ‘Unacceptable’ – health secretary Jeremy Hunt pledges action on out of area mental health placements in Norfolk and Suffolk
Adam Gretton of the Eastern Daily Press (EDP) reports: The government’s health minister pledged to “do what it takes” to address the pressure on mental health beds after being told […]
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Audio: BBC Suffolk interview & opinion poll as NSFT Chair Mr Page denies both 30th April out of area deadline and bed closures in Suffolk
Listen to Mr Page, the chair of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), claim that no beds have been or will be closed in Suffolk – until a local […]
Bed Crisis, Community Crisis, Gary's Page, HealthEast Consultation, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, PR Crisis, Press, Questions for the Board
