Is there no alternative?
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Is there no alternative?

Stephen Wright Professor, Faculty of Health and Social Care, St Martin’s College, Carlisle and chair of the Sacred Space Foundation

A hospital that prides itself on offering integrated care in a healing environment may be about to become a casualty of funding cuts. Stephen Wright reports

I HAVE A photograph taken about eight years ago - a throng of people are tramping around a muddy building site, dressed against the chill autumn morning. Carrying canes and laughing, people are marking the foundations of something very precious to them - a new home for wellbeing.

Nursing Standard. 18, 41, 14-15. doi: 10.7748/ns.18.41.14.s27

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