{"id":194654,"date":"2025-10-12T09:56:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194654\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T09:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:56:23","slug":"mental-health-unit-in-haywards-heath-closes-after-cqc-feedback-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194654\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health unit in Haywards Heath closes after CQC feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust said: &#8220;We have also taken the decision to give us time to work with children, young people and families to review and improve the model of care we provide at Chalkhill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is the right time to do this given we recently launched a new Crisis and Intensive Home Treatment Service to prevent the need for hospital admission where possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CQC, whose report from a recent inspection of the unit is yet to be published, said it did not wish to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While appearing before the East Sussex County Council health overview and scrutiny committee last month, trust chief operating officer John Child said the intention was to close &#8220;over three months&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;We wanted to make sure that the young people who are currently receiving in-person care, their care was not going to be disrupted, and we would support them to leave hospital in the normal way, rather than be transferred to another in-patient service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Child said positive steps had been taken since a CQC inspection in 2023 which rated the facility as &#8216;requires improvement&#8217;, including increasing the number of young people receiving care and the timeliness of admissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said there were a number of reasons for the closure, but &#8220;primarily&#8221; there was concern about an inability to sustain the necessary improvements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trust said: &#8220;We have also taken the decision to give us time to work with children, young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-194654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}