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"PATIENTS with severe mental health issues could be moved into the community if the site of a former children’s home in Southport is sold off for housing.

North West charity Nugent Care recently announced it was selling the nine-acre former Sir Thomas More site on Liverpool Road, advertising it as viable for an elderly care home or an “exclusive” residential development."

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"Sunday lunch was one of the highlights of Alan Scott's week when he used to meet with the rest of his family at his parents' home to catch up with family news.
Collete McCormack and Christine Walker
Collete McCormack and Christine Walker say their brother's care was flawed

Yet on 31 March 2008 after eight days without the medication for his schizophrenia, the popular sociable 36-year-old turned up at the family home in Liverpool, convinced by voices he heard, and killed his parents. "

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The government made a big mistake over the number of psychiatric patients who would need to be forced to take medication, the BBC has learned.

It predicted 300 Community Treatment Orders in the first year but 10 times as many applications have been made.

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OUTGOING health boss David Peat has attacked a health watchdog’s report into local health services, and said he has “no regrets” over the shake-up.

Mr Peat will leave his post as chief executive of NHS East Lancashire on April 30 to lead a new project for NHS North West, the body which oversees local health services.

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A MENTAL health organisation is celebrating mental health action week next week by asking the local community to challenge stigma and become a trust member.

One in four people will experience a mental health problem at some point in their lives, so Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) is calling on members of the public to show their support.

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