Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust recently consulted on its four-year service strategy, which sets out its plans to change services to meet the new local commissioning arrangements and address the financial constraints caused by the national economic situation and its impact on public finances. The strategy has been developed and led by the clinical staff over the past two years.
Moving forward, as part of the strategy implementation, the Trust has today informed staff working in the Dementia and Complexity in Later Life (DCLL) Services in Central and West Norfolk the outcome of their interviews following the service redesign.
The service redesign will mean staffing numbers reduce from 178 to 137 and 41 members of staff were issued with notice of redundancy. Support will be offered to all impacted staff.
This does not mean all these staff will immediately leave the Trust. This is the start of a huge, complex set of changes which could mean staff use their skills and experience in a different way or in different service.
To support this, the Trust has offered some of the affected staff an extended period of redundancy notice designed to give them more time to find alternative roles as other areas of the Trust services change in line with the strategy.
The DCLL service is the start of the changes outlined in the strategy and the Trust has always been very clear that it wishes to minimise the number of redundancies as much as possible.
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