Dale said when he met Lucy’s family, he was “completely shocked” by the experiences he heard. <\/p>\n
He said: “The care at the unit wasn’t delivered consistently in a way that we would aspire to in terms of being compassionate, thoughtful and inclusive of those using the service.”<\/p>\n
Explaining what had gone wrong at Chalkhill, he said the issue was complicated.<\/p>\n
“Some of it has to do with the fact that our estates were substandard and it was difficult to make improvements whilst the hospital was open,” he said.<\/p>\n
“But some of it is also about the clinical model that people were working with, and by that I mean the ways the different staff work together, the way we involve families.”<\/p>\n
The trust plans to re-open the unit towards the end of 2026. <\/p>\n
“We will be opening with an entirely new team,” Dale said.<\/p>\n
“We will be also drawing on our parents and young people in appointing that team and supporting them in reopening it, and the running of the hospital going forward.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dale said when he met Lucy’s family, he was “completely shocked” by the experiences he heard. He said:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":["post-714249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}