Members of the public in are being asked to give their views to help develop a top website for Norfolk and Suffolk’s mental health services.

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust have devised a survey to determine what people are looking for in their healthcare websites. The survey can be accessed by the following link: www.surveymonkey.com/s/NSFTwebsite

The website survey follows the merger of the former Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and the former Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust to form the new, joint Trust in 1 January 2012.

The quick survey asks a variety of questions such as whether there should be a series of websites for the different services provided by the Trust, how the website should look and feel, and what information will be the most useful to people visiting the site.

One of the proposals that the Trust are also consulting on is the potential to develop an extranet dedicated to partners – such as GPs, health colleagues, education professionals, housing associations – to improve their access to mental health resources.

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services in East Anglia, to an area which serves a population of some 1.5m people.