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

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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Campaign Cartoon: Director of Corporate Affairs and Communications Rebecca Driver quits NSFT: Veni! Vedi! Verti!

“I came! I saw! I turned around!” The Director of Corporate Affairs and Communications of the worst-run mental health trust in the NHS, Rebecca Driver, only appointed just before Christmas, demonstrates her commitment to mental health, her faith in Antek Lejk and her loyalty to NSFT by quitting in the New Year. Let’s bet there

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Press statement: Untrue and misleading statements made by Alistair Campbell

Yesterday, Alistair Campbell told the Eastern Daily Press: “On the one hand they’re saying services are terrible, and on the other hand they’re saying we don’t want any change. But there’s a bit of a big inconsistency in that. If they’re not happy with the services then at least look at some of the changes

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No Fly-Tipping: Dumping of Failed Management Waste on other parts of the NHS should be Illegal

“The board had failed to address all the serious concerns that had been reported to them since 2014. The breaches of regulation identified at our previous inspections had not been resolved. The board did not ensure that the services provided by the trust were safe. They had not taken action to ensure that unsafe environments

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Campaign Cartoon: “Holy Financial Self-Interest and Callous Corporate Corruption, Scatman! It’s the Scat Signal!”

Many thanks once again to our Campaign supporting artist, Saul Timothy, for his fantastic original artwork.

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Greed: EDP: £54,000 payment for ex-NSFT boss who got top job at Colchester Hospital three months later

NHS managers wonder why we have a low opinion of them… Matt Stott of the East Anglian Daily Times (EADT) reports: Alison Armstrong resigned as director of operations at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) in January 2017 after two years. She was applauded for helping to remove the NSFT from special measures

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‘Doing a Hewitt’: Introducing the new Norfolk Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) Chair: Patricia ‘BUPA’ Hewitt

What is it about Members of Parliament for Leicester? Patricia Hewitt was the Secretary of State for Health from 2005 until 2007. Despite being a Labour MP and supposed supporter of the NHS, after leaving the Cabinet Patricia Hewitt got herself a lucrative appointment as ‘special consultant’ to the world’s largest chemists, Alliance Boots, which

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Radical Redesign Heroes: Where are the TSSers now? Part 5: Kathy Chapman, Operations Director, NSFT

Kathy Chapman was the Director of Operations of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and the self-proclaimed architect of the Trust Service Strategy (TSS), otherwise known as the ‘radical redesign’, until her ‘promotion‘ in July 2014. The ‘radical redesign’ was condemned by the King’s Fund in the Health Service Journal (HSJ) and is widely regarded

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Radical Redesign Heroes: Where are the TSSers now? Part 4: Andrew Hopkins, Finance Director then acting Chief Executive then Finance Director, NSFT

During the radical redesign, Andrew Hopkins was Finance Director of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), becoming acting Chief Executive after the resignation of Aidan Thomas in July 2013. While Andrew Hopkins ‘acted-up’, NSFT employed astonishingly expensive interim finance directors. NSFT wasted unbelievable sums, millions of pounds, on redundancy and early retirement payments in the midst

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Radical Redesign Heroes: Where are the TSSers now? Part 1: Hadrian Ball, Medical Director, NSFT

Hadrian Ball was the Medical Director and highest-paid member of the Board of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) throughout the Trust Service Strategy (TSS), better known as the ‘radical redesign’. The ‘radical redesign’ was condemned by the King’s Fund in the Health Service Journal (HSJ) and is widely regarded as an unmitigated disaster which

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Revolving Doors: EDP: ‘It really is a disgrace’ – Norfolk community health bosses anger union with staff wage cuts

Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust (NCH&C) looks after thousands of patients a day through nurses and therapists visiting people in their homes, as well as in community hospitals, including Norwich Community Hospital on Bowthorpe Road. But it has angered Unison by increasing total board wages and

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