IT is, perhaps, a reflection of the Cinderella status of mental health care that a report into its provision for adults in East Lancashire reveals a need for better staff training and recruitment procedures.
And, although the situation may be improved and the service boosted with the provision of the new £5 million mental health unit being developed at Queen's Park Hospital in Blackburn, health chiefs who commissioned this study must take steps in the meantime to make improvements where the need for them has been highlighted.
Then, patients may get the level of help they need and are entitled to and the unit may not inherit these problems currently dogging mental health.
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