Last Meeting on Intensive Care Services

THE last in a series of public meetings about the future of psychiatric intensive care services for County Durham and Darlington is taking place in Darlington.The open event will be held in Darlington’s Dolphin Centre, today, at 11am. Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust and County Durham Primary Care Trust are inviting people to find out more and make their views known.The services for the north of County Durham transferred to West Park Hospital, in Darlington, from the County Hospital, in Durham, in April 2005.The original plan was for the service to return to Durham when the new mental health hospital opened, but both trusts now believe it may be more appropriate for the service to remain in Darlington.The two health trusts launched a 14-week consultation at the beginning of November. People have until February 6 to comment on the proposal. The meeting in Darlington is the fifth and follows other open events in Durham, Chester-le-Street and Consett.

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