The Mackintosh Centre is a care home in our village of Mallaig in the Highlands, providing essential residential and day care facilities to our elderly community. Services were suspended on the 26th July 2023 meaning residents were moved to the nearest available care home (a great distance from their families) and staff were temporarily relocation to other NHS Highland care facilities in the area.

Nearly 6 months on and the Mackintosh Centre is still closed. 

It is a much needed, valued and vital resource in our rural community.

It is our urgent desire to have the place re-opened as soon as possible as we have people who desperately need it’s services. We are victims of the wider lack of hospital beds which are already located in Fort William , Inverness & Glasgow making access for families very difficult. We need our own provision of care for those who would otherwise be occupying scarce hospital beds. 

Residents need to get back to their home. Families need their loved ones back where they belong. Staff need their local jobs back. Daycare services are needed to provided families with respite. 

We hereby sign this petition to show the local support for our precious care home to be reopened as a matter of urgency.