{"id":926596,"date":"2026-10-09T13:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926596\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T13:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:58:18","slug":"admissions-to-kings-lynn-mental-health-ward-remain-paused-with-no-date-set-for-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926596\/","title":{"rendered":"Admissions to King\u2019s Lynn mental health ward remain paused with no date set for reopening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Admissions to a Lynn mental health ward will remain suspended for the coming months, with no confirmed date for when patients will be able to return.<\/p>\n<p>The Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has confirmed that admissions to Samphire Ward at Chatterton House remain temporarily paused on \u201cquality and safety grounds\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Deery, chief nurse at NSFT, said the building itself remains open, but patients requiring an inpatient admission are being offered an appropriate bed elsewhere within the trust.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1374 580\" alt=\"Samphire Ward at Chatterton House in Lynn is not taking on new patients. Picture: Google Maps\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"LO9C4JBOYSLYQ4YFSBGS.jpg\" data-ar=\"2.37\"\/>Samphire Ward at Chatterton House in Lynn is not taking on new patients. Picture: Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cChatterton House remains open, but admissions to Samphire Ward continue to be temporarily paused on quality and safety grounds. There is currently no confirmed date for admissions to resume.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest update follows <a href=\"www.lynnnews.co.uk\/news\/mental-health-ward-pauses-patient-admissions-after-safety-9473046\/\">concerns previously reported by the Lynn News <\/a>about the temporary suspension of admissions to the ward.<\/p>\n<p>The trust says the pause will continue while it carries out wider changes to mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Deery said the trust has an \u201cexciting and broad community mental health transformation programme\u201d, including significant new investment in community pathways.<\/p>\n<p>Funding has also been secured for new neighbourhood mental health centres, including one in Lynn, with the aim of providing more care closer to people&#8217;s homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdmissions to Samphire Ward will continue to be paused over the coming months whilst we complete this work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The trust said the safety of patients and staff remained its \u201chighest priority\u201d and that service users, carers and families were being kept updated.<\/p>\n<p>NSFT said people who require an admission while Samphire Ward remains closed to new admissions will continue to be offered a suitable bed elsewhere within the trust.<\/p>\n<p>The trust has not given a date for when admissions to Samphire Ward are expected to resume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Admissions to a Lynn mental health ward will remain suspended for the coming months, with no confirmed date&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,17595,393,394],"class_list":["post-926596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-kings-lynn","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}