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Work starts on new psychiatric intensive care unit in Tameside

Construction work has started for a new £4.8 million psychiatric intensive care unit at Tameside Hospital. 

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust say the unit is "an important new facility that will help improve mental health services in the borough". 

The Trust adds that the new specialist male unit will provide short-term inpatient mental health care, assessment and treatment to patients who are experiencing serious mental health distress.

The unit is expected to open in April 2022. 

It will feature 12 individual en-suite rooms, an activity room, therapy room and a garden.


What the new psychiatric intensive care unit at Tameside Hospital will look like

Once open, Pennine Care’s current male unit in Stockport will then be re-developed into a dedicated female unit with 10 beds.

The work started on Monday (23 November). 

At a ground-breaking ceremony to dig the first turf to mark the start of the project, Claire Molloy, chief executive at Pennine Care, said: “When people require intensive psychiatric care it’s important the specialist treatment they receive is delivered quickly and as close to their home as possible.

“Having this facility means that patients and their families will no longer have to travel significant distances to access this type of care and we are delighted that we can now begin construction work.”

 

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(from left to right) Claire Molloy, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust chief executive; David Lees, head of capital projects and design; Alan Thompson, head of contracts at Walter Carefoot & Sons (construction company); Phil Proctor, project manager. 

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