- Target:
- NHS Lancashire Care Trust
- Region:
- United Kingdom
The NHS Lancashire Care Trust has announce a proposal that all dementia sufferers requiring specialist care in Lancashire be treated in Blackpool.
For people in the Rossendale and Burnley area this will mean an 80 mile round trip to visit their loved ones or friends. Most patients are likely to be elderly and the fact is that their husbands or wifes may not be able to drive.
This will put extreme pressure on the visitors in terms of time, expense and distress just when they need all the support that they can get. This is an inhuman way to treat people and cannot be in any way justified.
We the unersigned call on NHS Lancashire Care Trust to abandon its proposal that all dementia sufferers requiring specialist care in Lancashire be treated in Blackpool.
For people in the Rossendale and Burnley area this will mean an 80 mile round trip to visit their loved ones or friends. Most patients are likely to be elderly and the fact is that their husbands or wifes may not be able to drive.
This will put extreme pressure on the visitors in terms of time, expense and distress just when they need all the support that they can get. This is an inhuman way to treat people and cannot be in any way justified.
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The Support and Respect for Dementia Sufferers petition to NHS Lancashire Care Trust was written by Councillor Jim Pilling and is in the category Health at GoPetition.