Whoops! There goes another one...

[Azzami Bell]

The following article is ripped direct from Private Eye. (Where else can a brit read the truth!)

Britain’s pioneering hospital for vulnerable people with complex personality disorders has been “temporarily” closed –the latest victim of the government’s “joined-up” health policy.
Despite its international reputation for treating people with severe psychological problems, the Henderson Hospital in south-west London has effectively been starved out of service.
Providing residential care for up to 30 people whose disorders make them the most difficult to treat, the Henderson used to receive central funding. Then it was decided that primary health care trusts should each contribute £23,000 annually towards its costs in the event that one or more of their patients needed the specialist service. But some trusts opted out, saying they would pay on a case-by-case basis, in the region of £100,000 per person.
Until national funding was withdrawn in 2005, there was a six month waiting list to get into the hospital. Since then, lack of funded admissions forced the “temporary” closure by the South West London and St. George’s Mental Health Trust.
While Ivan Lewis, minister for mental health and care services has made noises about sorting out regional funding, nothing has happened, leaving the lucrative site for some huge for-profit private health company to take over. Brilliant!

[Jill]

Hi

Shame isn't it...

Bye for Now
Jill

[omshanti]

Yay. :P

(Note the sarcasm. Moving to Canada now.)