News and events

This week, my blog broadly focuses on the importance of networking, sharing ideas and raising awareness of what we are doing, why we are doing these things and the impact we need to see as a result us working differently with our service users, families, carers and our partners across Norfolk and Suffolk.

This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is encouraging everyone to move to improve how they feel, and Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has events organised to encourage people to join in.

As Mental Health Awareness Week approaches (13-19 May), Kerri Madders, chair of the Black Dog Music Project and a former service user of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) talks about a special event the group is hosting to mark the week, and her own mental health struggles.

People in Norfolk and Waveney experiencing anxiety and depression are to benefit from an enhanced new NHS Talking Therapies service providing tailored care and support as close to their home or place of work as possible.

Perinatal service users celebrated Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week and World Maternal Mental Health Day with special events for them, their families and friends.

People from local communities in Norfolk and Suffolk are being invited to join an independent Committee of Associate Hospital Managers.

Laughter, sunsets and sightings of a dolphin and seals added to the “amazing moments” for mental health service users and staff who joined a sailing recovery adventure around the British coast.

John Kasensa, Ward Manager at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation (NSFT), came to Britain as a young refugee, having lost his family in the war that ravaged the Democratic Republic of the Congo over 20 years ago.  

This week in my blog, I’d like to focus on a number of important initiatives, developments and announcements we have made over the last couple of weeks, all which link to our strategic improvement and transformation programmes and our four priorities as a Trust: improving health, improving care, improving culture and improving value.

Following a national, extensive and robust recruitment process, Dr Faisil Sethi has been appointed as the substantive Chief Medical Officer for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.