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Health Minister Barney Hayhoe Opens New Psychiatric Unit At West Suffolk Hospital For Elderly Mentally Ill and Improved Facilities For Kidney Patients In Norwich

1986 , Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk)

Cat no. 54843

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Brief scenes as Minister for Health visits new patient facilities.

Brief external views of the West Suffolk Hospital at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk where Minster of Health Barney Hayhoe spent over three hours when official opening a new psychiatric unit for elderly patients with mental illness. The unit has 48 beds and a 50-place day hospital. Sign for Wedgewood Day Hospital. The Anglia TV reporter explains that the unit opened in February and is designed to encourage elderly patients to help themselves and keep them separate from the acute psychiatric cases. In Norwich, Norfolk, Barney Hayhoe is shown the extension to the Jubilee Unit at the West Norwich Hospital which provides facilities for kidney patients. 40 extra patients can undergo dialysis each week. Scenes of patients receiving treatment at the unit. This short video was made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

Keywords

Health care; Hospitals; Day hospitals; Mental health; Health of elderly people; Kidney treatment; Dialysis

Additional Description

Conservative MP Barney Hayhoe (Bernard John Hayhoe 1925 - 1913) served as Minister for Health 1985–1986. The Jubilee Renal Unit at the West Norwich Hospital opened in 1978 with five dialysis machines.

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