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THE NHS is planning a shake-up of dementia provisions in Hastings after it emerged empty specialist hospital beds were wasting ?1million a year.
At present East Sussex has two sites boasting dementia assessment beds ? Beechwood Ward at Uckfield Community Hospital and St Gabriel?s Ward in the St Anne?s Centre at the Conquest.
However, consultation papers released earlier this week revealed that during the second half of the NHS?s 2012/13 period, the 34 beds across the county were only operating at around a 54 per cent occupancy rate.
http://www.ryeandbattleobserver.co....-being-spent-on-empty-hospital-beds-1-5416561
At present East Sussex has two sites boasting dementia assessment beds ? Beechwood Ward at Uckfield Community Hospital and St Gabriel?s Ward in the St Anne?s Centre at the Conquest.
However, consultation papers released earlier this week revealed that during the second half of the NHS?s 2012/13 period, the 34 beds across the county were only operating at around a 54 per cent occupancy rate.
http://www.ryeandbattleobserver.co....-being-spent-on-empty-hospital-beds-1-5416561