Documenting the campaigns to keep open Grisedale Croft and to reopen Alston Cottage Hospital.
Alston Moor is one of the most isolated rural communities in mainland England. The Alston Moor Parish Council is documenting and pursuing two parallel campaigns — to keep Grisedale Croft open, and to restore community healthcare to the Ruth Lancaster James site.
Each has its own story, its own working group, and its own folder in the Vault. Both rest on commitments that have already been made.
Grisedale Croft is the only residential care home on Alston Moor and the residential half of the 2018 NHS-and-Council settlement that followed the loss of in-patient beds at the Ruth Lancaster James Cottage Hospital. The Parish Council, working with this community, intends to hold them to it.
The cottage hospital served Alston Moor for over a century. Its in-patient beds were closed in 2018 on the basis of commitments that have only ever been half kept. This campaign asks the ICB to recognise the integrated model the community designed in 2014 — and which the country now calls a Neighbourhood Health Centre.
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Westmorland and Furness Council's twelve-week public consultation on the future of Grisedale Croft is expected to open today. The Parish Council's response is being prepared with the Working Group.
Read more →At an emergency meeting on 28 April, Alston Moor Parish Council unanimously adopted fourteen resolutions formally setting out its position on the future of Grisedale Croft.
Read more →Westmorland and Furness Council's Cabinet, meeting in closed session on 21 April, resolved to launch a twelve-week public consultation on the future of Grisedale Croft.
Read more →The Vault is the working group's shared archive. The items below are flagged public so anyone can read them.
The document made public at the Emergency Council meeting
This is Westmorland and Furness';s Annual Plan containing very direct accounts of how they want to keep people at home or near their own homes. It directly is in contrast to their consultation
Working group members can upload, tag, and organise the full archive.
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