Miss Mulberry
-
EDP: Carlton Colville woman blasts mental health chiefs over cuts
A woman whose husband suffers from dementia has criticised proposed cuts to mental health services in Waveney and Great Yarmouth, saying lives are being destroyed by measures designed to save […]
Bed Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, HealthEast Consultation, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Questions for the Board, Sham Consultation -
Quiz Answer: The increase in staffing at NSFT after the three month recruitment drive was NINE!
Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) managed to add just NINE out of its pledged 269 additional staff. That is only 3.3 per cent of its target and an […]
Cashless Concordat, Community Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis, Section 75 -
Quiz time: What is the increase in staffing at NSFT after the three month recruitment drive?
Remember this from April 2014? “Directors were told that the mental health trust had secured an extra £500,000 from Clinical Commissioning Groups in Norfolk to help hire new staff to meet […]
Community Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, NSFT Incompetence, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis -
Why the CQC selected NSFT for early inspection in its own words: Decision to schedule Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust for Inspection
We wrote to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) because Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has been claiming that the forthcoming CQC inspection is routine/random and that the Campaign […]
Bed Crisis, CAMHS Crisis, Clozapine Crisis, Community Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Gary's Page, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis -
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 -
Exclusive: Letter to HealthEast from all Waveney AMHPs exposes crisis in Suffolk and calls for NSFT Executive Board to resign
“NSFT are not to fit to lead or manage mental health services in Great Yarmouth and Waveney. The testimony and reflection above demonstrates this. As such, nothing they propose can […]
Bed Crisis, Community Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, HealthEast Consultation, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis, Sham Consultation -
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 […]
Bed Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Press, Questions for the Board -
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 […]
Bed Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Press, Questions for the Board -
Newsflash: NSFT a priority for inspection by CQC under new approach
The CQC website reports: The first batch of NHS mental health providers will be inspected and rated in October using our new approach. The inspections will assess the four providers […]
Bed Crisis, Community Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis -
Community Care: ‘Critically unwell’ mental health patients sent home due to bed shortages
Sue Bailey, chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists said that the survey findings showed mental health services were at a “tipping point”. “Continued cuts to services can only result […]
Bed Crisis, Cashless Concordat, Community Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, PR Crisis, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis -
Devastating HealthEast consultation results: less than 10% of respondents accept NSFT’s proposals to close beds and move to one site
“Proposal One: Adult mental health services This proposal is to reduce the number of adult acute beds from 28 across two sites (Northgate Hospital and Carlton Court) to 20 beds at one […]
Bed Crisis, Clozapine Crisis, Community Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, HealthEast Consultation, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Questions for the Board, Sham Consultation -
Devastating HealthEast Consultation results: “There is a general lack of confidence in the NSFT”
“For NSFT to attempt to justify further bed reductions while simultaneously cutting community services and spending significant sums on private out of area placement beggars belief. It is a disservice to those […]
Bed Crisis, Community Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, HealthEast Consultation, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis, Sham Consultation -
Campaign response to intimidating email from Messrs. Page & Hopkins of NSFT
“Sadly, it is necessary to comment upon the recent email from Mr Page, NSFT Chair, to all NSFT staff. Firstly, we are not a Unison campaign. Unison has no representative […]
Bed Crisis, Campaigning, Community Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, NSFT - A Warning from History, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Press, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis -
Intimidating email sent to all NSFT staff
This email has been sent to all Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) employees on Tuesday 20th May by Gary Page, Chair and Andrew Hopkins, Acting Chief Executive: Dear […]
Campaigning, Dangerous, Gary's Page, NSFT Incompetence, Questions for the Board -
Video: itv NEWS Anglia – Full story and interviews with David Walter, Terry Skyrme, Emma Corlett, Norman Lamb and Andrew Hopkins
Click the image below to watch the videos about Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), including interviews with NSFT patient David Walter, NSFT social worker Terry Skyrme and NSFT […]
Bed Crisis, Community Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Press, Recruitment Crisis -
NSFT – A Warning from History: March 2013 – Unison’s submission to the Joint Norfolk & Suffolk Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee
Fourteen months ago, when Unison sent the letter below, the Board of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) wasn’t campaigning for fairer funding for mental health. As recently as […]
Community Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, NSFT - A Warning from History, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Questions for the Board
