CAMPAIGNERS hoping to save a mental health rehabilitation unit in Gedling from closure are urging concerned residents to attend a meeting with NHS health chiefs next week to have their say.
The meeting to discuss the proposed closure of Broomhill House, in Gedling, will take place at All Hallows Church on Monday at 5.30pm.
The meeting is the second to be held with Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust bosses after they announced back in June that they were planning to close the unit.
Broomhill House, which has been based in Gedling for over 20 years, provides care and treatment for patients who are recovering from enduring mental health conditions but are not yet ready to return home.
It also provides an outreach service that enables some of its patients to live at home in the local community.
The Friends of Broomhill House, a campaign group formed to fight the closure of the unit, say they requested a second meeting with NHS bosses after concerns were raised about the location and timing of the previous one.
In a post on their Facebook site they said: “We did not feel the initial consultation meeting, held far away from the unit and during the daytime, was adequate. We have demanded another – and won it.
“We strongly fear that without enough specialist in-patient rehab beds Broomhill’s residents will either stay on acute wards for a very long time or the Trust will have to pay for very expensive out of area beds, many of which are private. Alternatively people will just flounder with inadequate care.
“We are taking our demand of ‘No closure without robust evidence’ directly to the people who make these decisions – the Trust Executive and the Commissioners.“
Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust released a statement about proposed plans to close Broomhill House back in June.
The statement read: “Feedback from patients and clinical evidence shows that people want to be cared for in their own homes, which aids their recovery. Therefore, the Trust has proposed the expansion of the successfully developed community rehabilitation team serving residents of the City and south of Nottinghamshire.
”These developments will allow more people to be supported to meet their rehabilitation need in their own homes, optimising recovery in the home environment. This change will lead to a decrease in demand for inpatient rehabilitation beds as more people receive their care in the community, and therefore the Trust has proposed to close two open rehabilitation units, Heather Close in Mansfield and Broomhill House in Gedling.”
ANOTHER story on this then Gedling Eye! It clearly states that the NHS are closing it because the patients don’t want it, they want to be treated at home. Place closes, patients get care in community -as wanted- and everyone is happy. Why save what isn’t needed or wanted? I feel sory for staff who may lose jobs but I think it’s got to go if isn’t required. The NHS needs all the cash it can get so why spend funding on keeping something patients don’t need open.
The Broomhill patients need Broomhill, they have severe and enduring mental health difficulties and prior to Broomhill they relapsed whenever they were discharged into community care(care at home) . This is why they and their carers have launched the Friends of Btoomhill campaign.
The Broomhill patients are NOT the ” most patients” who “want to be cared for at home” that the trust are referring to.
Tony Rowe how can you say this if you are local in gedling. This is a much needed place for ill people to go in our area and you say it should shut because the nhs say people say it should shut? Maybe the nhs WANT us to believe that so we don’t fight for broomhill anymore. I don’t think you are local Tony Rowe otherwise you wouldn’t say this as you would know how much broomhill MEANS to the people of Gedling.
Note to self: Don’t read Gedling Eye in bed. I FUMING and will now struggle to sleep. Tony Rowe is a proper twit (I wish to say stronger but no doubt a filter on here). The NHS are lying Tony. OF COURSE they would say it’s for the patients own good. I think if they asked for feedback from GE then most would say sack NHS bureaucrats and save money. I doubt they’d act on THAT feedback so swiftly. Let’s hope we can save Broomhill House for the good of the community. In the meantime: Tony Row think before you speak.
Tony Rowe is talking balls. I doubt mental health patients really know WHAT they want so the NHS decide on their behalf. #SaveBloomhill
Broomhill IS needed, but the Trust wants the public to believe otherwise. Community care has failed Broomhill users in the past, it is not right for them because they have severe and enduring mental health difficulties. They need Broomhill .
what is so ironic is that so much money has been spent on the place….. and now they want to close it down……left hand not talking to the right hand…. AGAIN!!!