A Stitch-up is not Safe: Improvement doesn’t look like this

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We’ve known the intended result of the inspection of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) since before Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspected the worst mental health trust in the country. We’ve heard rumours from many quarters that NSFT would be moved from ‘Inadequate’ to ‘Requires Improvement’ tomorrow for months, with the bureaucratic dinosaur known […]

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A Stitch-up is not Safe: Campaign writes to Care Quality Commission regarding NSFT inspection

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Today, we have written to Care Quality Commission (CQC) expressing our concerns about the inspection currently underway at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), echoing the views of many stakeholders. While we desperately want NSFT to improve, any improvement needs to be genuine rather predetermined for the convenience of the NHS bureaucracy. CQC cannot

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Our correspondence to Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, and the Chief Executives of NHS Improvement and NHS England regarding their toleration of the mental health Mid Staffs at NSFT

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We wrote to: Matthew Hancock, Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and MP for West Suffolk Dido Harding, Chair, NHS Improvement (NHSI) Ian Dalton, Chief Executive, NHS Improvement (NHSI) Dale Bywater, Executive Regional Managing Director (Midlands and East), NHS Improvement (NHSI) Paul Watson, regional director at responsible for the

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Radical Redesign Heroes: Where are the TSSers now? Part 2: Aidan Thomas, Chief Executive, NSFT

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Aidan ‘I’m No Dirty Den’ Thomas was the Chief Executive of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) during the Trust Service Strategy (TSS) consultation process, 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 resulted in

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Kept in the Dark: Dear Simon Stevens, we’re still waiting after 285 days

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  I am sorry that the response to your internal review request is taking longer to complete than our standard and the understandable frustration this may be causing you. Further to your initial Internal Review request, the panel convened on 8 April 2015 and we hope to be able to provide you with the panel’s

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Kept in the Dark: Saturday 7th February at 10.30 a.m. – Campaign talking about NSFT ‘mutualisation’ at the Curve, the Forum, Norwich NR2 1TF

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We will be speaking alongside Professor Sue Richards, National Co-Chair of Keep Our NHS Public and retired surgeon Anna Atthow. Please join us. Norfolk Keep our NHS Public Public Meeting 7th Feb @10.30am in the Curve, The Forum, Norwich Who Owns our NHS? Our NHS is steadily being destroyed. Since 2010, £10 billion of contracts have been

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