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From Topher Dawson, Lochbroom Community Council

Please could you circulate the following to the Ward 5 CC’s? Including the attachment.

Best wishes, Topher.

“Good morning,

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I am writing to your Community Council to ask you to publicise our Open Letter, attached below, and encourage people in your CC area to email their Councillors and MSP’s. They can use the letter or write their own.

You may be aware that the above Nursing Care Home will be shutting at the end of this week, and not April 23rd as previously advised. Lochbroom Community Council, based in Ullapool, has received messages of concern from Community Councils in Kyle of Lochalsh, Durness and all points in between, which is a stretch of 100 miles.

As chair of LBCC I have convened a local group of concerned residents to campaign on behalf of the wider North West coast. We are extremely concerned about the shortage of nursing care beds locally and in the whole area, which means that if beds are available anywhere in the Highlands, vulnerable people are sent miles away from their home area. We had a well attended local public meeting which gave us a clear mandate to require Highland Council to commission NHS Highland to re-open the home.

Highland Council recently bought Main’s House Care Home in Netwonmore as it was in administration, and we are calling for it to do the same here. Through Community Councils we will be asking people to send the attached open letter to their councillors and MSP’s.

I am available for comment on 07597568210, as is Davie Mackenzie on 07771986956.

Best wishes, Topher Dawson, chair, LBCC.