TIME is running out for the public to have their say on NHS proposals to improve mental health services.
Plans include building a mental health treatment centre in Hartlepool and two centres for elderly people with mental problems and for mentally-disabled people in Stockton.
The Tees and North-East Yorkshire NHS Trust has received £8.4m from County Durham and Tees Valley Strategic Health Authority for the improvements.
But there is only a week left to inspect proposals and comment on them. If final approval is given, the new buildings and reorganisation of services will be completed by the end of next year.
The trust also has separate plans to demolish the former St Luke's Hospital asylum in Middlesbrough and build a modern centre on the site by 2009. Managers have already been granted Department of Health approval for this £73m phase of its plans.
To view the plans, visit www.peoplelikeus.nhs.uk or write to Flatts Lane Centre, Flatts Lane, Normanby, Middlesbrough, TS6 0SZ.
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