Stop the closure of Park Avenue Personality Disorder crisis pathw

I currently have a close friend who follows the crisis pathway provided by Park Avenue. It is a well acknowledged fact that in Medway there are too few mental health facilities available to meet growing demand. Those that are available are usually oversubscribed. The Medway Maritime Hospital closed its residential mental health wards, meaning that other than A&E there is nowhere that mentally ill patients can go when they are in crisis. 

The A&E department is not equipped, nor should they be expected, to handle these patients. Yet someone going through crisis is an imminent danger to themselves and does require urgent attention. When patients in crisis present at the A&E departments it overburdens the facility and doesn't aid their recovery as there is no specialist care available. Waiting for the crisis team liaison in the hospital merely means that the patient will be shipped to a Medway Ward in another hospital, such as Littlebrook at Dartford. Some patients have been shipped as far as Newcastle due to overcrowding in Medway Ward.

This is damaging to the mental health of the individuals, who can be seen by specialised in-patient facilities like Park Avenue in a number of cases, rather than being pushed from pillar to post and distanced for their support network of friends and family at the tax payers’ expense. For the care commission to pull the funding of a safe haven like Park Avenue, who have specialised staff and programs to aid those with PD is ridiculous. If this facility closes these patients will be passed around without receiving the support they need to manage their mental health conditions.