{"id":817435,"date":"2026-10-29T09:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T09:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817435\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T09:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T09:34:09","slug":"disused-cromer-care-site-could-become-mental-health-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817435\/","title":{"rendered":"Disused Cromer care site could become mental health centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Benjamin Court in Cromer, which closed in June 2023, could be transformed into a neighbourhood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/26483615.hope-nhs-benjamin-court-cromer-remain-public-site\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mental health centre under proposals<\/a> from Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT).\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The site previously offered post-hospital discharge care but was shut without public consultation.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Campaigners have welcomed the renewed interest but remain focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northnorfolknews.co.uk\/news\/26528570.mp-tables-amendment-reopen-cromers-benjamin-court\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">restoring the original service<\/a>.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesman for the Benjamin Court campaign group said: &#8220;We welcome the interest being shown by NSFT, as it will mean that at last Benjamin Court could be opened up for what is undoubtedly a valuable and much-needed health facility for north Norfolk.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Having said that, the main focus of our campaign over the last three years has been for Benjamin Court to be reopened for post-hospital discharge care, as that was the service which used to be provided there until it was closed without consultation in 2023.&#8221;\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The group said it will continue to press for this to happen, if possible alongside the mental health service.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There is an open day being held by the trust on November 11 from 10am to 4pm at Benjamin Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benjamin Court in Cromer, which closed in June 2023, could be transformed into a neighbourhood mental health centre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-817435","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\/817435","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=817435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}