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

Dr Dan Poulter has started work as a part-time psychiatrist at the Norfolk and Suffolk foundation trust, which coroners have said has had repeated failures. Photograph: You Tube

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.