Critics say lives absorb been place at risk by the closure of Bootham Park in York,with 30 patients having to be discharged or movedThe closure of York’s only public adult mental health hospital with just five days’ warning could place lives at risk and should be subject to both an independent inquiry and a judicial review, according to a local MP and lawyers representing patients.
Bootham Park hospital was closed suddenly in October last year after a critical report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), or the hospital regulator,forcing 30 inpatients to be discharged or relocated and affecting 400 outpatients.
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Source: theguardian.com