Mental Health Provision Under Fire at Avalon Unit, Rathbone Hospital

At the Social Care and Health Committee, Liberal Party Spokesman Steve Radford protested that plans to provide new accomadtion for long term health patients had been left swining since 1998. the current conditions he described as Dickensian.

Mersey Care Officials at the Committee (thursday 11th Dec) admitted the patients had been treated secondary to the needs of acute hospitals for too long. The Mersay Care Management were now progressing a bid to redevelop the Rathbone site and possibly extend onto the former Ian Skelly site on Edge Lane