The BBC reports: Thirty-six mental health beds are being closed by Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, eight of them permanently. Further details have emerged after it was revealed a mental health ward in Ipswich would be temporarily shut. The trust said the closures “were in the best interests of patients”. But the Campaign to […]
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Gemma Mitchell of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: The region’s beleaguered mental health trust has had to shut 36 beds since autumn, it has been revealed. Beds have closed in Ipswich, Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. At least eight of the bed closures are permanent. Service users and carers and their organisations received little
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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: “The sister of a mentally ill man who died after being tranquillised in hospital has slammed the region’s mental health trust for not addressing problems with the practice sooner. And a inquest into his death found failings in the care he received from Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation
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BBC News reports: A private hospital rated as inadequate has closed down after a mental health trust withdrew all its patients, citing safety concerns. Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) said it was not confident that safety improvements at the 27-bed Mundesley Hospital in Norfolk were taking place quickly enough. This isn’t what complacent
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Only the actions of our mental health campaign ensured Mundesley Hospital was promptly inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and Norfolk’s Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) would have carried on using the inadequate private hospital without our intervention and that of the EDP. We suspect Jane Sayer’s appalling
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BBC Health Correspondent, Sophie Hutchinson, of the BBC national News at Six, reports on Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) becoming the mental health trust to be placed into Special Measures after being rated Inadequate by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) not just once but twice. Includes interviews with Cath Pickles, new NSFT CEO
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The region’s mental health trust has once again been branded as failing as inspectors found serious issues first raised three years ago had not been fixed. Inspectors found patients at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) were unsafe and the service was inadequately led, as the
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Inspectors found the hospital was unsafe and poorly led, and chief inspector of hospitals Professor Edward Baker said the CQC was beginning “the process of preventing the provider from operating the service”. This means if in six months things have not improved, the CQC will shut the
Stewart White and Mike Liggins lead BBC Look East with the sudden ‘retirement’ of the Chief Executive of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), Michael Scott, shortly before the publication of an inspection report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). As well as outlining the worsening bed crisis and millions wasted on temporary staff,
The BBC reports: The chief executive of a troubled mental health trust, which came out of special measures in October, is standing down. The trust was placed in special measures by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in February 2015, but was taken out of special measures in 2016. A new report from the CQC is
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“We have long been calling for a new Board and management culture at NSFT which puts patients and carers first and foremost and genuinely engages with front line staff. “While Michael Scott’s sudden ‘retirement’ is a personal tragedy, albeit one tempered by an enormous pension, it could represent the beginning of an opportunity to
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The boss of the region’s beleaguered mental health trust is retiring with immediate effect. The trust recently had its third inspection and NSFT chair Gary Page said as they “await the inspection report, Michael feels now is the appropriate time for a new leader to take forward
Explaining why services at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) were unsafe, the most recent inspection report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) noted (page 8): “There remained a shortage of beds across the trust and that this had impaired patient safety and treatment at times. Staff worked with other services in the trust
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is being inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). What does the Chair of NSFT, Gary Page, do during the second week of the inspection? He goes on holiday. We’re sure Mr Page’s dedication will be much appreciated by frontline NSFT staff and CQC inspectors alike. Let’s hope
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A man was held in police custody for nearly 60 hours while he waited for a mental health bed to become available. The man – one of 10 similar cases recorded by police between May 2016 and February 2017 – was arrested for a public order offence
Emily Luccarini has started a petition demanding improvements to mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk delivered by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT). Click on the image below to sign the petition and add your own comments. Thanks Emily!
Geraldine Scott of the EDP ‘interviews’ Michael ‘Payrise’ Scott, the £175,000 per year Chief Executive of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT): The region’s mental health trust has reported it has seen financial growth at the same time as slashing its deficit for the first time in five years. That sounds great. Sadly, ‘slashing
Mariam Issimdar of the BBC reports: Norfolk and Suffolk’s mental health trust is in the top five in the country for sending patients out of area for care. Last year more than 350 adult mental health patients were sent out of the county for treatment by the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT). The BMA’s
In February of last year, we challenged the Board of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) about rumours that it intended to close the last mental health beds in West Norfolk at the Fermoy Unit in King’s Lynn: Bosses at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) said they could not rule out
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: More than £1.6m has been spent by the region’s mental health trust on sending patients to a private hospital since it was put into special measures by inspectors last year. Mental health campaigners alleged Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) continue to use the private Mundesley Hospital,
