Bereaved families angered by Tory MP’s second job at troubled NHS trust

Critics say by working for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS trust, Dr Dan Poulter cannot hold it to account effectively

Families bereaved after failures by a troubled NHS mental health trust have expressed concern that a local MP has taken a second job there as a paid clinician.

Norfolk and Suffolk foundation trust (NSFT) has been rated as inadequate" four times since austerity cuts were made in 2013, at a time when Dr Dan Poulter, the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, was a junior health minister in the coalition government.