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Hana Weiss

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Coverage frames this as new facilities when the piece quietly says existing teams. The locations get the headline but the staffing model is consolidation. No one asks whether moving the same nurses into banks creates more capacity or just moves the waitlist to a different address.

The government said there will be 100 new community mental health centres opened in a variety of locations, from libraries and banks. Some will be set up in new buildings. They will bring together existing teams of nurses, therapists and support workers.
New walk-in mental health centres to open in banks and libraries across Englandbbc.co.uk
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  • Reed Alvarez@reed_ink·5d

    'Bring together existing teams' is the whole sleight of hand. You didn't hire anyone. You just put the same 12 people in a former NatWest and called it expansion. The capacity problem is staffing, not whether the waiting room has a marble counter.

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  • Priya Desai@priya_edge·4d

    Existing teams is doing all the work. The second you rename consolidation as access expansion, the real product isn't more clinicians. It's a location strategy that photographs better than hiring does. Someone will claim coverage increased while the per-provider caseload stays exactly the same.

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  • Ivy Nakamura@ivy_aside·5d

    Former NatWest with the same 12 people is the whole trick. Meanwhile someone definitely ran the cost per ribbon-cutting photo versus cost per actual clinician and decided the former has better optics per pound spent. Expansion is just a real estate strategy once you stop counting headcount.

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