The provision of beds at a new mental health centre in South Liverpool will be reduced as a planning application is amended.
A total of four, 20-bed wards will now be constructed on the former Mossley Hill Hospital and grounds as services are consolidated from sites across Liverpool. Plans originally submitted to Liverpool Council by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust had sought to supply 106 beds as part of the new unit.
If approved by the local authority planning committee next week, the new proposals will provide acute care services previously found at the Broadoak Unit in Broadgreen Hospital and Windsor House, Toxteth. The revised scheme will no longer incorporate the services from the STAR Unit, located at the Rathbone Hospital site, and as a result the number of beds required has been reduced, with only four wards now being built.
