The Exodus Continues . .

[steveL]

MENTAL health bosses have launched a consultation over the proposed closure of a rehabilitation centre for adults in Hartlepool.
The Tees Esk and Wear Valley is looking to close the nine-bed mixed-sex facility in Victoria Road as part of plans aimed at improving mental health services for adults and getting them back into the community more quickly.
The number of residents at Victoria Road has been reducing over the past two years. At the end of September there were no residents left and the facility was temporarily closed.
Trust bosses are now consulting on plans to permanently close the site and sell the building, which opened in 1996 and provided continuing care and rehabilitation and accommodation for patients, in come cases up to five years.
Officials say while it is in good condition the rooms do not have en-suite facilities, which is a key requirement of modern mental health care units.
Also, that more people are now receiving rehabilitation at home while other providers have demonstrated they can also support patients with complex care needs in the community.
Patients that have recently left the Victoria Road site are now either receiving care at home, at residential homes or at similar sites in Middlesbrough and Stockton run by the Trust.

Yet another NHS Service being transferred to Teesside under the guise of improving services. The manipulation of facts in these instances is now so blatant that very little effort now seems to go into disguising what is really hapening. We're told that the Victoria Road facility is under-used to the point of now being empty but then we're also told that over the last couple of years patients have been relocated to Middlesbrough.

Quite how moving patients 14 miles away from their home represents an improvement for patients and relatives trying to visit them remains a mystery.

Notice the lack-lustre defence of retaining such services in town by SAB reminiscent of his original position on Hartlepool Hospital.

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/talks-started-over-proposed-closure-of-hartlepool-rehab-centre-1-6216794

[Land Phil]

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/crime/man-stabs-himself-in-front-of-horrified-shoppers-in-hartlepool-asda-1-6220865

[Inspector Knacker]

The way things are going, medical provision will consist of a wise old crone in a hovel... that is until she's condemned as unfit for purpose and replaced by a new improved crone at Stockton.

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

The way things are going, medical provision will consist of a wise old crone in a hovel... that is until she's condemned as unfit for purpose and replaced by a new improved crone at Stockton.

Damn ... I fancied the job! 

[mk1]

The way things are going, medical provision will consist of a wise old crone in a hovel...

An opening for Angie and the old MRA building?

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

The way things are going, medical provision will consist of a wise old crone in a hovel...

An opening for Angie and the old MRA building?

No, no - I was in there first (and I can supply my own cat)! 

[stokoe]

all around us.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24914385