{"id":423448,"date":"2026-05-12T06:23:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/423448\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T06:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:23:18","slug":"23m-mental-health-inpatient-unit-opens-in-poole-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/423448\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a323m mental health inpatient unit opens in Poole hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Work on the two-storey unit, which will host two specialist adult wards, began two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first floor Chine Ward will relocate female patients from a listed building elsewhere on the site which limits modern development, offering improved facilities and an increased capacity of 14 beds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the ground floor, Haven Ward \u2013 divided into eight-bed male and five-bed female psychiatric intensive care units \u2013 will also add to bed numbers on the site, as well as making space elsewhere at St Ann&#8217;s for extensive refurbishment and modernisation works, due to be completed over the course of 2027\/28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dorset HealthCare chief executive, Matthew Bryant, said Chaddesley House will allow the trust to &#8220;provide the highest level of care to more local people&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work on the two-storey unit, which will host two specialist adult wards, began two years ago. The first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-423448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423448","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=423448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}