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Checking out the new lounge at the Enliven Lorna Home for hospital level dementia care at The Croft Rest Home complex in Timaru are Presbyterian Support South Canterbury staff, from left, Kirsty Burnett, Mark Manit and Helen McLeod.
Residents from the soon to be closed Talbot Park care facility are being readied for a move to the new $2.2 million Enliven Lorna Home wing at The Croft Rest Home complex in Timaru. Work on the project started in late 2019 and was completed recently after being interrupted in 2020 by Covid-19. It was officially opened on Friday and blessed on Monday by Te Rūnanga o Arowhenua upoko (head) Tewera King and Presbyterian Support South Canterbury (PSSC) chaplain Reverend Alan Cummins.
Hospital shake-up leaves Romney Marsh residents in the dark over future of services
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Updated: 11:54, 22 February 2021
The delay on a decision whether to move A&E even further from Romney Marsh as part of plans to reshuffle east Kent s three hospitals has been criticised.
Currently, residents on the Marsh have to travel to Ashford s William Harvey Hospital for the accident and emergency department - which is 17 miles from New Romney.
How the super hospital in Canterbury is planned to look. Picture: Quinn Estates
But since 2017, health chiefs have been exploring two options as they look to transform healthcare in east Kent.