\n Clinical staff at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) have voiced fears about staffing levels and workplace pressures in a survey carried out by the GMB union.\n<\/p>\n
\n According to the findings, 90pc of mental health nurses and practitioners reported unsafe staffing levels, contributing to stress, burnout and concerns about patient care.\n<\/p>\n
\n Hellesdon Hospital (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n
\n NSFT provides mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services within the two counties.\n<\/p>\n
\n It is home to the Wellbeing service in Norfolk and Waveney, Suffolk Wellbeing Service and Norfolk Recovery Partnership.\n<\/p>\n
\n One GMB member said: “I am more concerned for patient safety at this stage in the CMHT (Community Mental Health Team).\n<\/p>\n
\n “We are very short-staffed due to sickness and staff resigning and not being replaced.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Ashley Foster, GMB regional organiser, said: “Our members are deeply committed to their jobs and their priority is the wellbeing and safety of their patients, who are often vulnerable.\n<\/p>\n
\n “They work extremely hard to deliver the best possible care, but they are telling us that low staffing levels and management failure risk compromising patient safety.\n<\/p>\n
\n Caroline Donovan, chief executive officer of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (Image: Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust)\n<\/p>\n
\n “As NHS England\u2019s data shows, the trust is dysfunctional and its management is failing both staff and patients.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The trust currently ranks 50th out of 58 community and mental health providers in NHS England\u2019s league table and has received the lowest possible rating for patient safety.\n<\/p>\n
\n Caroline Donovan, chief executive officer at NSFT, said: “We take all concerns relating to staffing, staff wellbeing and the quality of care we provide extremely seriously and continue to listen to and address concerns wherever they are raised.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The safety of the people who use our services remains our highest priority and we are committed to ensuring they receive safe, high-quality care.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We remain committed to listening to staff, working constructively with our trade union partners and continuing to improve services for the people and communities we serve.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections have rated eight out of 11 of the trust\u2019s services as \u2018good\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clinical staff at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) have voiced fears about staffing levels and workplace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-771795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}