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Dementia beds set to be axed in Carlton Colville as part of mental health shake-up
Reducing the 12 beds and maybe staff
Anthony Carroll anthony.carroll@archant.co.uk
Thursday, May 23, 2013
11:41 AM
The mental health trust for Norfolk and Suffolk has launched an internal consultation into the future of acute dementia beds for elderly people in Great Yarmouth and Waveney.
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has announced it is looking at reducing the 12 beds at Carlton Court Hospital in Carlton Colville, near Lowestoft, and replacing them with dementia intensive support teams to provide care for more elderly people at their homes in the Waveney and Yarmouth areas.
It is believed the number of beds in the dementia ward could be cut to three and 31 staff could be affected.
Fitness-for-work tests unfair on people with mental health problems, court says
Work capability assessments place those with mental health conditions at substantial disadvantage, judge concludes
Amelia Gentleman
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 22 May 2013 14.13 BST
The judge ruled that the Department for Work and Pensions had breached its duties to make ‘reasonable adjustments’ under the Equality Act to ensure that people with mental health problems were treated fairly. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
The fitness-for-work test used to determine whether hundreds of thousands of people are eligible to claim sickness benefits substantially disadvantages people with mental health conditions, a court has ruled, in a landmark ruling hailed as a significant victory by mental health charities.
A three-judge tribunal panel ruled that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had breached its duties to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act to ensure that people with mental health problems are treated fairly by the system.
