SHORTSIGHTED LIBERAL DEMOCRATS VOTE FOR CLOSURE OF LIVERPOOL STROKE CARE UNIT

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THE CONSULTATION PERIOD FOR THIS ISSUE ENDED 31ST MARCH 2007.

WHAT IS THE FUTURE FOR VENMORE MEWS AND
VENMORE HOUSE?

AS CARE HOMES ACROSS THE CITY ARE CLOSING AND THE LIVERPOOL CARERS FROM THE PRIVATE INDUSTRIES HAVE BEEN FORCED TO ACCEPT A CUT IN TERMS AND CONNDITIONS AND WAGES, THE COUNCIL RUN SERVICE IS CLOSING DOWN AND THE CARERS BEING MADE REDUNDANT, CAST ASIDE.

CAN ANY OF US SIT BACK AND LET THIS DESTRUCTION OF LOCAL SERVICES CONTINUES?

WHAT WILL BE LEFT IN THE END?

WHO WILL HELP US WHEN WE GET OLD?

WRITE TO YOUR COUNCILLORS, JOIN THE CAMPAIGNS!

WE CANNOT LET OUR ELDERLY AND VULNERABLE BE TREATED WITH SUCH INDIFFERENCE TO THEIR NEEDS.

SEE MY OLD POSTING BELOW FOR A REMINDER OF THIS ISSUE AND LINK UP TO CITY OF THE DEAD FOR CARERS CAMPAIGN

Origional posting

VENMORE HOUSE IN ANFIELD LIVERPOOL, HAS BEEN IN THE NEWS AGAIN TODAY AFTER LIVERPOOL LIBERAL DEMOCRATS VOTED IN FAVOUR OF CLOSING AN AWARD WINNING SERVICE!

ALL OF THE LABOUR MP'S IN LIVERPOOL HAVE VOICED THEIR OBJECTIONS TO THIS CLOSURE, YET THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT COUNCIL HAVE ALL VOTED TOGETHER TO ENSURE THE PEOPLES VOTE IS ENTIRELY IGNORED!!

YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF WHAT IS BEHIND ALL OF THIS???

WHO REALLY WANTS THAT PIECE OF PRIME REGENERATION AREA, PIECE OF LAND??????

TODAY IN THE DAILY POST THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN





We'll carry on fight to save home

Oct 25 2006

By Kate Mansey Daily Post Staff

ELDERLY people and their families yesterday vowed to fight the closure of one of Liverpool's old people's homes after a consultation into its future was given the go-ahead.

Infirm and ill people, some aged 80, arrived in Liverpool yesterday to campaign against plans to close Venmore community care centre, in Hartnup Street, Everton, in order to make way for a modern 'elderly village'.

So far more than 1,500 people have signed a petition to save the home, but the centre's future is far from certain.

At a meeting yesterday, residents and their families addressed councillors to explain what the home means to them.

Willsbert Buckeridge, 72, wept as he told them: "I've lived there for two years and it is my home - people are very generous there and I don't know what would happen if it closed."

Maureen Finn, whose 76-year-old mother Elizabeth Finn has lived in the home for 13 years, said: "It will kill my mother if she leaves."

The 25-bed centre, which also provides daycare for elderly people in the community, encompasses a stroke recovery unit.

In 1998, the centre benefited from a £2.8m refurbishment.

Cllr Roz Gladden said: "It seems utterly ridiculous to spend that much money, to then close the home less than 10 years later.

"This is not a true consultation exercise but a cynical procedure to 'consult' residents, which really is not acceptable.

" A senior staff member said: "Staff have been promised new jobs so it isn't for our sake that we're fighting this - it's for the residents.

"We've lost an awful lot of services over the years in Liverpool and there are very few homes left - we can't afford to lose Venmore too."

Yesterday, members of Liverpool City Council's health and adult social care select committee voted to go ahead with a consultation into what will happen to the home, but members changed the consultation to be one about the

'future', rather than the 'closure', of the centre.

Councillors also voted to ensure that vacancies at the home would continue to be filled in order to prevent a situation where empty beds helped fuel a closure.

A further report is now expected following the consultation to ascertain the centre's future.

kate.mansey@liverpool.com

IN THE MEANTIME ONE OF OUR ELECTED MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT IS HIGHLIGHTING THE LACK OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE LIVERPOOL DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED COUNCIL AND THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE.

Jane Kennedy (Liverpool, Wavertree, Labour)

I invite my hon. Friend to consider how better partnership working might improve our severe health inequalities in Liverpool.

Does she know that last month, in the very same week that the NHS announced its welcome stroke care pathway, Lib Dem-led Liverpool city council announced the proposed closure of one of the two venues from which the pathway was to be run, dispersing the staff who had just been trained to run it?

I invite her to give the NHS the strongest possible encouragement to continue with its excellent work, which seems to be one of the few ways in which we can make a serious effort against health inequalities in Liverpool.

Caroline Flint (Minister of State (Public Health), Department of Health)

I thank my right hon. Friend for that information.

There is no doubt that stroke and conditions such as diabetes and coronary disease are among the biggest diseases facing the NHS.

The issue is not just about helping people so that we can prevent them from acquiring those diseases, but about giving them support to allow them to live longer once the disease has become part of their life.

Although it is difficult for me to comment in depth, I suggest that the Lib Dem council has taken a rather short-sighted approach in respect of the unit.

THE LAND IS WORTH A FORTUNE

WHO REALLY WANTS IT AND WHAT IS THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS HIDDEN AGENDA??

DEMAND TO KNOW WHAT THE AREA OF ANFIELD OR THE CITY OF LIVERPOOL, WOULD GAIN FROM THE CLOSURE OF AN AWARD WINNING HIGHLY RESPECTED AND MUCH NEEDED SERVICE?

MAKING OUR ELDERLY AND VULNERABLE HOMELESS AND TEARING THEIR FAMILY UNITS TO PIECES!?


I DO NOT BELIEVE THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY WERE ELECTED IN UNDER THAT PROMISE DO YOU??

WHO WANTS THIS LAND????