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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is a large mental health trust and an NHS Foundation Trust. It runs services in Norfolk and Suffolk, England, chiefly at Hellesdon Hospital, Norvic and Juilan Hospital in Norwich, Northgate in Great Yarmouth, and Carlton Court in Lowestoft
It was formed by a merger of Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust with Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust on 1 January 2012.
In November 2013 a campaign to save mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk alleged that inpatient and community services are in “acute crisis" because of cutbacks. The staff group claimed they were finding it “almost impossible to function in a safe and legal manner”. "hundreds of people packed into a room at the Vauxhall Centre in Norwich" on 25 November 2013 for the first meeting of the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk at which it was alleged that deaths of service users were increasing.
In October 2014 Norfolk County Council ended the formal agreement with the trust established in 2008 after losing confidence in its capacity to guarantee outcomes for social care service users. About 100 social care staff and the management of the service will transfer to the Council.
In February 2015 the Trust was put into special measures after the Care Quality Commission reported the trust was "not a safe... service". It was subsequently partnered by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.