EADT: Special Report: One year on from mental health trust’s damning review – what’s changed?

Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: Today marks a year since the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) was rated ‘inadequate’ for the third time in a row. The toleration of the underperformance of NSFT is a national scandal. The Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT)’s most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) report, […]

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EADT: Mother of Sudbury’s Joe Ruler, 19, who killed himself at Wedgwood House is left ‘heartbroken’ that same mistakes still being made by NSFT mental health trust

Matt Reason of the EADT reports: The heartbroken mother of a Sudbury teenager who died in the care of a Suffolk mental health unit has claimed lessons have still not been learnt from her son’s death. Joe Ruler died five years ago at the Wedgwood House unit, in Bury St Edmunds, with an inquest last

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Ipswich Spy: Silent protest greets mental health cuts

Jane Basham, Labour Parliamentary Candidate for South Suffolk, organised yesterday’s protest, and spoke with Ipswich Spy afterwards. “I attended most of the Health Scrutiny meeting today. Despite a damning report by HealthWatch Suffolk and a host of challenging questions by Health Scrutiny Councillors the Directors of NSFT stuck to their guns – there is no

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EADT Suffolk: University students in region could help fill vacancies in mental health service

Mental health chiefs in Suffolk will look to university students in the region in a recruitment drive aimed at reducing the high number of vacancies in the service. The admission came from representatives of the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) during a meeting of the county council’s health scrutiny committee yesterday. They said

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Audio: Campaign supporter Jane Basham & NSFT Suffolk Director of Operations Debbie White interviewed on BBC Radio Suffolk

From the complacent way Debbie White is talking, you’d never guess that Healthwatch Suffolk had issued a damning report to Suffolk County Council Health Scrutiny Committee that same morning, would you?  

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Silent Protest at Suffolk County Council Health Scrutiny Committee, Endeavour House, Ipswich: 22nd January 2014

Suffolk County Council Health Scrutiny Committee is taking place on Wednesday 22 January at Suffolk County Council at 10 a.m. Health Service issues will be discussed, including the crisis in Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT). We are holding a silent protest outside Endeavour House from 9.15 a.m. to around 9.45 a.m. Thanks to Jane Basham

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