Press Release: Victory! NSFT to reintroduce Assertive Outreach with £1m investment

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UPDATE 06/05/2020: Sadly, this was an April Fool. The quotes from former Professor Jonathan Warren and Marie Gabriel are genuine and accurate, taken from the Board and Governors minutes. Jonathan and Marie just never bothered to tell anyone that they weren’t going to do it any longer, hence the April Fool. The clique and commissioners […]

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EDP: Revealed: How mental health patients are being sent to failing private hospital

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) sent 21 patients to Kneesworth House, in Royston, over the last year and on Tuesday it was revealed how Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors found dirty wards and “uncaring and disrespectful” staff at Hertfordshire unit, as well as Priory Hospital Blandford

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EDP: Is this in the public interest? Man who attempted suicide in hospital car park is taken to court

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Peter Walsh of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Campaigners have criticised a decision to prosecute a man experiencing mental health problems who lay down in front of vehicles at a Norfolk hospital in an attempt to kill himself. The 40-year-old man, who we have decided not to name, lay down in front of two buses

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North Norfolk Branch Meeting: Experiences of NSFT for CQC inspection: 7 p.m. Tuesday 11th July, Cromer Football Club Clubhouse, Cabbell Park, Mill Rd, Cromer NR27 0BQ

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We have been asked by the regulator of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), Care Quality Commission (CQC), to submit feedback before its forthcoming inspection in September. The relevant part of its letter to us is summarised below: We would like to receive information you hold relevant to the quality and safety of services

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EDP: ‘The system is broken’ – emergency mental health 999 incidents double

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Dominic Gilbert of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Urgent mental health-related incidents attended by police officers have almost doubled in four years as pressures on the 999 service grow. Coinciding with the ‘radical redesign’ and ruthless cuts to mental health community, crisis and home treatment teams and beds; the closure of assertive outreach and homeless

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EDP: Campaigners protesting against lack of mental health services in north Norfolk

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David Bale of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Protestors gathered on Cromer pier today and carried placards and banners to highlight the number of people affected by mental health issues. Even in the appalling weather, about eighty people attended the protest. The protest follows a number of suicides by young people in north Norfolk. Jenna

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Protest: Can You See Us Now? Cromer Promenade: Wednesday 8th May 2019, Noon – 2 p.m.

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The North Norfolk branch of the campaign is holding a protest on Wednesday 8th May 2019, from noon until 2 p.m. we will be filling Cromer Promenade* with as many people as possible – patients, health care providers, friends, family… Mental health affects us all. We urge you to attend if you can and to

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Research: NSFT featured anonymously in prestigious Journal of Management Studies

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The salary of more than £150,000 per year paid by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) to its Director of Research without a PhD appears to have finally paid off. NSFT’s management has been featured anonymously in a leading business journal, Journal of Management Studies. You can read the fascinating article by Mats Alvesson

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EDP Front Page: Mental health patients in ‘acute distress’ STILL sent miles away five years after pledge to end practice

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Scores of mental health patients in “acute distress” were sent out of Norfolk and Suffolk for care – despite five years of promises that the practice would end. With services bursting at the seams, 82 people from the two counties were shipped away from their homes and

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Press release: Campaign investigation into the deeply-flawed Mental Health Strategy written by BCG for Norfolk and Waveney STP: Part I

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We have already expressed our concerns about the Norfolk and Waveney STP’s Mental Health Strategy. Now, our worst fears have been confirmed. Whilst the Mental Health Strategy contains some fine words, it has little concrete information about the future of mental health services. Worryingly, the Mental Health Strategy was not co-produced with service users and

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EDP: Campaigners ask where mental health nurses will come from under new GP surgery plan

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Concerns have been raised over where mental health nurses to be placed in doctors’ surgeries are going to come from amid a shortage in the profession. A £500,000 review into Norfolk and Waveney’s health system identified that 127 mental health staff would be needed to work in

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The Guardian: Nuwan Dissanayaka: Jamie is psychotic and won’t go outside. Mental health services are failing him

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This article from Nuwan Dissanayaka needs to be read by everybody with an interest in mental health. Dr. Dissanayaka is really worth following on Twitter. We’re delighted Nuwan’s views are getting wider attention in the national press. Dr. Dissanayaka is the consultant psychiatrist in the Assertive Outreach team in Leeds. Of course, assertive outreach at

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CAMHS Crisis: Joint Ofsted/CQC Inspection in Suffolk: NSFT’s CAMHS services are ‘poor quality’ and ‘next steps… may include the Secretary of State using his powers of intervention’

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What does the joint Ofsted and Care Quality Commission (CQC) SEND inspection published today say about the provision of mental health services for children and young people in Suffolk by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT)? The teams delivering health provision are not seen to be sufficiently responsive to children and young people with

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NHS Staff Survey 2018 – Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is appalling – yet again – yet again

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Yet again, the NHS Staff Survey results are appalling. Front line staff have been ‘led’ by overpaid muppets for far too long. With the publication of these results, the ‘leadership’ of the Chief Executive of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), Antek Lejk, has now been rejected by front line staff as well as service

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Press Release: Campaign statement on the delays to the cuts café

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A spokesperson from the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: “People in crisis need real services, not being patronised with cups of tea and endless signposting to long waiting lists or non-existent services. There are already drop-in centres, cafés and NHS services but their funding is deeply inadequate and has

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EDP: Mental health crisis hub delayed by a year as patients continue to be sent hundreds of miles for treatment

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A crisis hub pegged to help stem the number of mental health patients sent miles away due to a lack of beds has been delayed by a year in part due to debates over the building it will be in. A wellbeing hub – also known as

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EDP Front Page: Cross-party letter demands end to ‘chaos and confusion’ in Norfolk and Suffolk mental health

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A cross-party group of MPs have demanded the “chaos and confusion must end” over the region’s failing mental health care provision. Seven MPs from Norfolk and Suffolk, representing the Conservatives, Labour, and the Liberal Democrats, have written to regulator NHS Improvement (NHSI) to slam the “unacceptable drift”

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The Thick of: NSFT Comms: New role for Head of Recovery and Participation

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NSFT Comms writes: Our Head of Recovery and Participation is to take up a new role to drive through urgent operational matters while making the case for reintroducing primary care link workers across Norfolk and Waveney. There is no employee better placed than [CENSORED FOLLOWING PREVIOUS LEGAL THREATS FROM NSFT] to make the case for

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Mental health trust Chief Executive Antek Lejk sends email to staff and seeks to meet MPs

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Antek Lejk, the disastrous appointment as Chief Executive of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has written an email to all staff. I am writing to bring you up-to-date with the progress we have been making since our CQC inspection results were published, with particular focus on the work which has taken place over

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