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A BID to transform the way mental health services are provided in Suffolk may lead to a cut in frontline services, it was claimed today. Borough leaders have expressed their concerns after hearing a presentation from the Suffolk Mental Health Partnership Trust about its plans to become a foundation trust. A letter sent to the health trust from Ipswich Borough Council said it is “concerned that the increased bureaucracy which apparently comes with foundation status will further divert resources from frontline services”. The health trust is at the latter stages of applying for foundation trust status which means it will become answerable to members of the public rather than the government. It involves ordinary people with an interest in health becoming members of the trust. In a letter to the trust's chief executive Mark Halladay, Ipswich Borough councillor Judy Terry, responsible for health, said: “The council broadly welcomes the proposal to create a foundation trust if this will deliver the outcomes you have set out in your consultation document. Indeed, any proposals which make the NHS more accountable to local people are to be supported.
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