The proposed merger with Suffolk Mental Health Partnership (SMHP) will be on the agenda when the Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust’s board of directors meet in public in Lowestoft next Thursday (May 26, 2011).

At the public board meeting the Trust’s acting chief executive, Andrew Hopkins, will present an update about the proposed merger with SMHP and provide an update on the cost improvement programme. The public will hear details of the Trust’s Annual Plan 2011-2012.

The public board of directors meeting will start at 10.00am in The Kirkley Centre, 154 London Road South, Lowestoft, NR33 0AZ. The meeting is anticipated to finish at 12.40pm.

The board of directors hold their meetings in public quarterly and the papers for the public meeting can be accessed on the Trust website at: www.nwmhft.nhs.uk/en/AboutUs/Freedom-Of-Information/How-we-make-decisions/Board-of-Directors-meetings/