In a letter to the BBC, a group identifying itself as “concerned residents of Reading” said it worried about the impact on rehabilitation services for the town. <\/p>\n
But the trust said more than 60% of its patients who live in Reading were already cared for at West Berkshire Community and Wokingham hospitals. <\/p>\n
It said it would “launch a programme of engagement” in the coming weeks “to understand the potential impact of the proposed changes on our patients and their families”.<\/p>\n
No redundancies are expected and the trust said it would “work with affected staff to identify suitable alternative roles and opportunities within the trust”.<\/p>\n
But the group said the proposal had caused “enormous concern amongst patients, families, carers and staff”.<\/p>\n
They said the impact of the proposal on staff “cannot be overstated”, with some “devastated”. <\/p>\n
“Those of us who know Oakwood Unit understand that it is far more than a ward,” the said.<\/p>\n
“It is a valued community resource that delivers personalised rehabilitation and support for some of the most vulnerable members of our society.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a letter to the BBC, a group identifying itself as “concerned residents of Reading” said it worried…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-807848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807848","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=807848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}