{"id":64702,"date":"2025-10-10T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/64702\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:00:13","slug":"nhs-in-black-country-plans-changes-for-elderly-mental-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/64702\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS in Black Country plans changes for elderly mental health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two &#8220;state-of-the-art, multimillion-pound older adult units&#8221; had been developed at Dorothy Pattison Hospital in Walsall which opened in February, followed by Edward Street Hospital in Sandwell, which is due to open to patients this month, the trust said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the preferred option goes ahead, the Meadow, Malvern and Holyrood wards at Penn and Bushey Fields hospitals, in Wolverhampton and Dudley, would eventually close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People can <a href=\"https:\/\/staffzone.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk\/services-1\/shaping-future-our-older-adult-mental-health-services-across-black-country\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">give their views, external<\/a> until 31 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two &#8220;state-of-the-art, multimillion-pound older adult units&#8221; had been developed at Dorothy Pattison Hospital in Walsall which opened in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-64702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}