80 Mental Health Jobs Face The Axe
NHS bosses at East Lancashire’s mental health hospital Calderstones have announced 80 posts are to be axed and two wards closed. The hospital, based in Mitton Road, near Whalley, takes in patients with learning difficulties, sometimes referred to the facility by courts. Now the Calderstones NHS Trust has revealed two wards are planned for closure, the first in October with a second pencilled in for spring 2007. Each closure will result in the loss of about 15 beds.
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