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Mental Health Nursing, Mar 2007
A mental health ward at a hospital in Leicester has been closed as part of plans to save the trust £4.6 million by the end of this financial year. The temporary closure of the Herrick Ward, part of the Brandon Unit at the Leicester General Hospital, will mean the loss of 30 beds. Patients were moved to other wards in the general and Glenfield hospitals while consultations on the future of the ward take place.
Trust chief executive professor Maggie Cork said: 'All NHS trusts have a legal duty to break even financially each year and as part of our financial recovery plan we have to identify ways of working more effectively and of using our resources in the most efficient way possible.'
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