Tegfan Mental Health Centre
Today the Welsh Conservatives have selected Mental Health as the topic for our minority debate. We have discussed this area in group and feel that it has been neglected by the Labour Welsh Assembly government.
In the morning I visited Tegfan Mental Health Centre with Jonathan Morgan. It is on the site of Whitchurch Hospital and is threatened with closure. There is no notion of a successor service and this is deeply worrying.
Jon and I spent some time talking with the patients and it is clear that they have not been meaningfully involved in talking about their future. These are vulnerable people and I find it worrying some of them have been coming to the hospital for forty years or more.
Jon and I talk to patients and staff but as regards the management we would have probably had a warmer welcome if we had been bailiffs coming to repossess the furniture! It is not a good advertisement for the trust!
The debate itself is in general a constructive one although surprisingly from the Labour side only the minister speaks and he is obliged to do so. As the Minister responsible
