People living in Lancashire can access mental health care, support and treatment closer to home, through a new inpatient mental health unit which has opened in Central Lancashire.
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has opened a brand, new inpatient mental health unit at Chorley Hospital earlier this month. The new unit will provide 30 beds for adults aged 18 and over and 6 psychiatric intensive care beds for women following a major re-development to transform ward areas previously used by the Trust, providing private bedrooms and bathrooms, therapy spaces and access to garden areas.
The Trust also launched its specialist perinatal mental health Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) on the same site last month. Ribblemere is an 8 bed MBU for new mothers experiencing mental illness to be cared for alongside their babies.
Lisa Moorhouse, Head of Operations for the Mental Health Network at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust said:
“We are so excited to have opened this inpatient facility here in Chorley and to be able to offer new and improved mental health services to people living in the area. By having an inpatient mental health service Central Lancashire, it means that we can offer local people access to high quality care and treatment closer to home.
“This is the final phase of a long term programme of development work to reconfigure our inpatient mental health services so that people can access the support they need when they most need it.”
The development has been funded by capital funding from NHS England. The bid from Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust was supported by Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria , the partnership working to improve services and help the 1.7 million people in Lancashire and South Cumbria live longer, healthier lives.
For more information please visit www.lancashirecare.nhs.uk/chorley-inpatient-mental-health-service.
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