Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the (a) quality and (b) availability of mental health services in the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Trust.
We are working with the NHS England, the Care Quality Commission and local partners to ensure high quality patient outcomes at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. Local partners are assessing how mental health services may operate in future, with options being developed for improving service delivery.
Ministers will be hosting a meeting with Hon. Members from across Norfolk and Suffolk and NHS system partners on 12 December to discuss the improvement work that is being taken to improve services at the Trust.