Photographs © Tony Broughton
Staff members of Ward A23 at Nottingham Queen’s Medical Centre (past and present), held a reunion on Friday evening following the announcement that hospital chiefs want to shut down their dementia ward.
Ward A23 at the hospital currently has 20 beds for the assessment of dementia patients.
According to the Nottingham University Hospitals Trust, which runs the QMC, money previously spent on the beds will be used to set up care in the community services.
A report submitted by the hospital to the Joint City and County Health Scrutiny Committee states: "Unnecessary hospital admissions are not in the best interests of people with dementia or their carers.”
"Most carers would like to have the person with dementia at home for as long as possible."
If the proposals to close the dementia ward are approved, the ward will be used to treat acutely-ill patients instead.
The Joint City and County Health Scrutiny Committee will meet at Loxley House, Nottingham, at 10.15am today to discuss the plans.
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