Waveney Acute Services
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Newsflash: Meeting at NHS Improvement today to decide whether Monitor should release NSFT from Special Measures
Today, officials meet at NHS Improvement (NHSI) to decide whether Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation should be released from Special Measures. Usually, when a health trust is put into Special […]
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EDP: ‘Something has to change’ – Southwold mental health activist Sarah Barrett speaks out after she was hospitalised 206 miles away from home
No wonder the Eastern Daily Press has been shortlisted for a mental health journalism award. Andrew Papworth reports: A teenage mental health patient sent to hospital 206 miles away from home […]
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Fiscal Fantasy Island: NSFT spends over half its Out Of Trust Acute (OOA) Beds budget in first two months of the year
The number of out of trust acute (OOA) bed days has nearly doubled: from 332 days in April 2016 to 647 days in May 2016. Most of these patients are […]
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Help: Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspecting NSFT in July 2016
CQC, the independent regulator of health, mental health and adult social care in England will be inspecting Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust the week beginning the 11th July. They […]
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EADT: Will new children’s mental health unit in Suffolk solve ‘deeply troubling’ problem of young people in adult wards?
In another example of first-class investigative journalism, Andrew Hirst of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: Campaigners have welcomed plans for a new mental health unit for children in Suffolk […]
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EDP: Union backs Mental Health Watch campaign – and highlights ongoing concerns in Norfolk and Suffolk
David Powles of the EDP reports: Bosses of the trust used their recent AGM to proclaim of turning a corner, but Ms Corlett says while some things have improved – […]
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Gallery: Slides from Public Meeting: What is happening at NSFT? Do we still need a campaign?
You can view the presentation in the Gallery below or download the slides as a pdf to view offline, distribute or print. The sources of the employment data are […]
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EDP: Four-fold increase in bill to send mental health patients out of the region
The Eastern Daily Press reports: A lack of beds and increased demand led to a four-fold increase in the cost of sending people with mental health problems outside of Norfolk […]
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Express and Star: Mental health patient spent 64 HOURS in police custody because there were no NHS beds in the country
The country has run out of mental health beds after the closure of more than two thousand NHS beds. The Express and Star reports: A mental health patient spent 64 hours […]
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In NSFT’s words: Cuts not patient care drove early closure of Carlton Court beds
The premature discharge of patients and closure of Waveney Acute Services at Carlton Court, breaking the promise made by commissioners and Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), was driven […]
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EDP: Anger as Suffolk adult mental health unit closes
David Powles of the EDP exclusively reports: Campaigners fear even more adult mental health patients will have to be sent outside of the region, after it was confirmed a unit […]
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Fiscal Fantasy Island: NSFT spends record £2.42 million on temporary staff as out of area bed days nearly double
Having wasted £17.25 million of taxpayers’ money getting rid of staff it needed, Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) spent nearly £2.5 million on temporary staff in May alone. […]
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BBC News: Norfolk and Suffolk mental health funding plan prompts dispute
Nic Rigby of the BBC reports: Cash for future mental health provision in Norfolk and Suffolk has “fallen short” of what is needed, prompting a dispute with an NHS trust […]
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Audio: NSFT Deputy Director of Nursing tries to resolve ‘dire’ Waveney strike staffing crisis by ringing wrong person
Listen as the Deputy Director of Nursing at Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), Michelle Allott, mistakenly rings a campaign supporter who left NSFT more than a year ago […]
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