Legal News
Enhanced Mental Health Unit Opened (28 November 2011)
Date: 28/11/2011
An enhanced mental health unit has been opened near Lancashire to provide service users from the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust with the ‘step down’ care that they require. The new unit, known as Fellside, is home to 20 step down beds and remotely supervised ‘flat lets’.
Tim Riding, Lancashire Care’s network director for secure services, told of how it was “very satisfying” to be able to deliver a major capital scheme within budget and within the recommended timeframe. Mr Riding claimed that the unit paid tribute to the teamwork carried out by Lancashire Care’s partners.
The unit, which is equipped with modern facilities, and the service it will provide, will provide an effective care pathway for individuals diagnosed with mental health issues who are on the road to recovery. The unit will ensure that the service users’ stay the secure unit is as short as possible.
Alongside the Fellside unit, a number of cottages have been redeveloped to provide step down rehabilitation specifically for women who have spent a period in secure mental health care facilities. The new unit is housed opposite the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust’s low secure unit that was officially opened in March 2010.
Duncan Lewis’ mental health department is one of the UK’s largest providers of mental health legal aid services. The team’s mental health solicitors pride themselves in assisting individuals suffering from mental health issues who are compulsorily being detained under the Mental Health Act of 1983.