The closed hospital that’s ‘open - St Luke's Hospital Woodside

DELUSION is more normally associated with those who suffer from mental illness than those who treat it. 
However, in the case of the local Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust (which has no reference to mental health in its title), it seems to be suffering from this problem which it sets out to cure since it persists in believing something which is clearly not true. 
St Luke’s Hospital Woodside, the oldest and nicest of the Camden and Islington Hospitals, has been effectively closed during the last year and now has security protecting its unused buildings. 
The trust claims that it remains open on the basis that there are three small peripheral units for long-stay patients still in use. 
The three acute wards which were within the hospital have closed. 
Why the trust wants to continue to deny that it has closed St Luke’s is something of a mystery unless it has to do with the fact that it has not made this closure public nor risked a consultation on the closure of St Luke’s Hospital. 
If challenged it will adopt the linguistic argument of “what does closure mean?”. 
The fact is that there are three fewer wards, more than 30 fewer beds, available for the treatment of those suffering acute mental illness is what it means.
And this at a period when the rates of mental illness are increasing. 
Sheila Laws, Lawn Road, NW3