Save Ada Belfield care home protest at County Hall, Matlock
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00:00The demand for today is that they pause the decision.
00:06I'm Anne Frances Hayes, Councillor Hayes for Staveley in Derbyshire
00:10and we're here today to represent our care homes in Belper, Buxton and in Staveley
00:16against the changes that the Conservative Cabinet are voting about today.
00:21In terms of the Staveley Centre, the Cabinet are voting today to get rid of all the dementia patient beds
00:29and replace them with hospital discharge beds.
00:32This is going to be a disaster for the 10 or 16 or so people that are in that home at the moment.
00:39Most of them are in the late 80s, early 90s.
00:42One has lived there for as long as 10 years and they are going to have to be relocated.
00:47Moving these patients from their long term homes is going to cause relocation stress.
00:53That leads to anxiety, depression and disorientation
00:58and it can be lethal for dementia patients.
01:02I'm asking the Council today to rethink this decision
01:06and to keep those dementia patients in the home for the foreseeable future.
01:11I'm Keith Fenwells, the Chair of Belper Together.
01:15We're here today to celebrate the high quality provision of Ada Belfield Care Home
01:20and to ask the Council not to set off to a private bidder.
01:25Their bad financial planning has been going on for four years now since they became the leader of the Council
01:31and it's a concern that their bad decisions financially have led to wrong decisions in closing down important care homes like Ada Belfield.
01:40My name's John Ryle. I was born and brought up in Belper.
01:47I'm here really because my late mother who passed away in July 2023
01:53was a resident at Ada Belfield for nearly three years.
01:59She was also born and brought up in Belper.
02:03She worked as a state registered nurse in the area
02:07and latterly she worked at Babington Hospital nursing what we used to term geriatric people.
02:13So she got first hand experience when she went into the home.
02:18She didn't want to go in. She didn't really want to stay there.
02:23They tried to get a care package together but they couldn't do
02:27and eventually it was decided she was safer and she thought she was safer to stay in.
02:33Then when they moved into the new premises in 2020
02:38she got a lovely home, en suite room.
02:41She got views up to the chevin where she used to walk from school
02:46and I think her ashes are now scattered on the chevin, just below the chevin
02:53and so she can see all this happening and she'd be absolutely appalled at what's going on.
03:00She really needs it. We need, we do need essential care.
03:06Not everybody can stay at home. It just isn't possible.
03:11They can't get the care packages together.
03:14That's really why I'm here to sort of represent her
03:19and hope she'll approve.