Concerns after catering staff duties are handed over to care assistants at Northampton mental health hospitals

Concerns after catering staff duties are handed over to care assistants at Northampton mental health hospitals Workers at a mental health charity feel too much responsibility is being handed to ward staff in Northampton after 11 catering staff were made redundant.

St Andrew’s Healthcare’s catering team prepares about 900 meals for its patients every day.

But late last year the charity, which runs the large mental health hospital off Billing Road, put the jobs of 46 people in the team at risk as part of plans to hand some duties over to healthcare assistants.

The largely taxpayer-funded charity has now confirmed 11 staff have been made redundant in the restructure. Northampton Chronicle and Echo