Construction on new £150 million facilities for Derbyshire patients needing significant mental health support has now officially begun, with people currently being sent all over England for care. Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is overseeing the building of new mental health facilities at Kingsway Hospital in Derby and at Chesterfield Royal Hospital along with additional new units at Royal Derby Hospital and Walton Hospital. Construction works started on the major […]

A father who bought a bungalow next to Eckington Leisure Centre to accommodate his disabled daughter said its new environmentally-friendly heating system had significantly increased noise pollution at his home. North East Derbyshire District Council (NEDDC) installed air source heat pumps at the community facility in a bid to improve energy efficiency, however Paul Vardy, who lives in a house in Gosber Road next to the centre, said since then a […]

More than 2,000 Derbyshire patients are in need of vital autism assessments and are now waiting an average of over a year and a half for help. Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, the county and city’s mental health specialists, has been open about the struggles it has faced and continues to face in carrying out autistic spectrum disorder assessments. In November, when the backlog was 1,300 patients and an average […]