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TOWN to lose mental health OR dementia inpatient service. The Trust in charge says they can’t afford to keep the Millbrook Unit running and patients will have to choose which service to keep (Express, November 29) June Heath: Mental health is getting worse. You’re not just betraying the people who are ill but keeping people in the community safe. How many managers have they got? How many forms and paperwork do they change costing hundred and hundreds of pounds? How many lights in empty rooms are left on? How much bank staff do they use? At one time there was a waiting list for jobs and bank staff were little used. Before closing wards on our elderly, find out where the waste is before taking it out on the vulnerable. Lucy Loo: It’s ridiculous. Parkside had people there that shouldn’t even have been there and now we have people that genuinely need help and they can’t even get it close to where they live. Sharon Pollard: The Tories have been dismantling mental health services for years, now it’s the elderly too, Hollins View already gone, people voted for them and this is the result. Carole Poyser: They should never have closed Parkside, it catered for both these fields and many more there. Both these services are needed I am disgusted with this decision. James Barber: The Tories have run the NHS into the ground and now we in Macclesfield are paying the price. Fiona Safc Nutburn: Disgusting! Macc needs both of these services. My family had to travel nearly an hour to see me at Chester. As I worked on the Millbrook unit so couldn’t be a patient there. It was just extra stress for them. Family visiting people who have dementia, primarily their next of kin, is an older person who might not be able to drive! Too many pen pushers as usual and not enough nurses, health care assistants making the decisions. Such a shame and this proves why mental health/dementia is bottom of the pile in the NHS! Katie Rathbone: Why is saving a life any less important when mental health is involved than any other illnesses? Julie Fletcher: Absolutely disgusting, I really wish somebody could tell me what’s more important than our mental health service. Julie Elkin: Whichever government is in power they all promise the earth when its election time then when they are in its wham bam everything changes, cuts and no money. Tanya Bailey: With the closure of essential services I foresee those that need it not receiving the treatment they deserve and more pressure being placed on charities such as Mind. What’s going to happen to those who need an emergency admission and Chester, Hope and Stepping Hill are full? Jason Dunkley: Have witnessed first hand the devastation this illness can have on individuals and families. Offended and disgusted. Zoe Jessica Blaikie: Absolute joke spending money on stupid things nobody wants and not keeping services we really need. No-one listens to us, it angers me so much. Sonia Thompson: Absolutely disgusting, obviously the people making these decisions don’t know what’s it’s like to have a mental health problem and have to travel miles to see relatives. A very sad state of affairs! It’s a very horrible world we live in these days!