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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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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EDP Data shows mental health trust has cut doctors and nurses – but chief disputes the figures

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: New data has revealed the number of doctors at the region’s mental health trust has shrunk over the last five years – whilst the number of managers has risen. Figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) showed in July 2017 there were 20.3pc fewer

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Campaign statement on NHS Digital payroll data showing 52.7 increase in managers as more than twenty per cent of doctor and qualified nurses cut at NSFT over past five years

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A spokesperson for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: “Since 2013, we have repeatedly warned about the increasing number of managers employed at NSFT as mental health services have been savagely cut and the number of unexpected deaths has doubled. But the NHS payroll information is worse than we

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BBC News: Directors at ‘unsafe’ mental health trust NSFT got pay rise

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BBC News reports: Four directors at an “unsafe” mental health trust received £10k pay rises, despite failing to improve standards. As reported in the EADT, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) boosted pay to £108,000 after it came out of special measures in 2016. A campaign group said the pay rise was “completely unjustifiable”.

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Greed: EADT: ‘Inadequate’ mental health trust NSFT slammed for directors’ £10,000 pay rises

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Gemma Mitchell of the Eastern Anglian Daily Times has one of the most shocking exclusives we have ever read about the Board of Shame of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT): Campaigners have reacted with outrage after it emerged four bosses at the region’s failing mental health trust were each awarded £10,000 pay rises

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EADT: Damning report finds Suffolk failing some children with special education needs leaving families ‘frustrated and confused’

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Andrew Hirst of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: Families have had to “fight every step of the way” to get help for the children with the greatest needs in Suffolk. Waiting times for mental health services are said to have started to reduce demonstrating “necessary progress in an area that still requires significant further

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CAMHS Crisis: in accordance with the Children Act 2004 (Joint Area Reviews) Regulations 2015, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (HMCI) has determined that a written statement of action is required because of significant weaknesses

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Many mental health services for children and young people (CAMHS) and for people with learning disabilities in Suffolk are provided by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT). NSFT is the dominant provider of mental health services in Suffolk. NSFT has repeatedly claimed all is well in Suffolk and that the only problems are in

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EDP: Mental health survey’s ‘damning’ findings to be used to hold Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Trust to account

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Andrew Hirst of the EDP reports: The Stepping Forward survey results presented in Ipswich at the Suffolk User Forum event was intended to show how far the NSFT had improved in the view of its service users after being placed in special measures earlier this year. Although the trust has agreed measures to improve since

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