{"id":391704,"date":"2026-04-22T07:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391704\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:02:07","slug":"public-left-in-dark-over-failing-northampton-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391704\/","title":{"rendered":"Public &#8216;left in dark&#8217; over failing Northampton hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keeble, a former Northampton North MP, called for &#8220;full information&#8221; on the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These vulnerable mental health patients are being failed again by health services,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The care they received at St Andrew&#8217;s was so unsafe the NHS ordered their removal. One month on, it seems that almost all of them are still there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keeble said she had also asked NHS England for the number of patients removed so far, and which health bodies they came under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC can also reveal that mental health charity Mind met Health Secretary Wes Streeting earlier this month to discuss its concerns over the future of St Andrew&#8217;s patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom Pollard, head of policy and influencing at the charity, said Streeting had &#8220;reassured us that the department is taking the situation at St Andrew&#8217;s very seriously&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;We do, however, remain concerned about wider systemic issues driving failings in inpatient care and we raised this with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keeble, a former Northampton North MP, called for &#8220;full information&#8221; on the process. &#8220;These vulnerable mental health patients&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-391704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}