Proposed Closure Of Westwood Hospital In Bradford

EDM number 137 in 1991-92, proposed by Bob Cryer on 12/11/1991.

That this House notes that, shortly after this Government rubber stamped approval for the second hospital trust in Bradford, the trust announced closure proposals for Westwood Hospital for mentally handicapped people which will involve dumping patients into varying degrees of community care in order to sell of the land for residential development from this tranquil, sheltered site which should be the basis for a village community for the mentally handicapped; and recognises that instead patients will be treated like pawns by a group of trust managers who put profit and puffed up salaries before patients whilst riding rough-shod over the wishes of relatives and patients alike in an act of betrayal towards the mentally handicapped, one of the most vulnerable sections of the community.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs.