Mental Health Service Delivery

We provide services for adults with complex and challenging needs who have experienced social exclusion. Through our multi-disciplinary team approach we actively promote care pathways and inclusive lifestyles which may, at times, require intensive therapeutic support and care.

We aim to deliver services that are innovative, treatment centred, comprehensive and resource effective within gender specific Independent Hospitals and specialist care homes.

Dependent on pre-admission clinical assessment, we are able to accept referrals both as a step-up from the community, during times where patients need additional clinical support, and as a step-down from acute NHS services, medium secure units and prisons. Our objective is to extend the choice of clinical provision to patients, service users, purchasers and other stakeholders.

Our Independent Hospitals are designed to ensure patients receive the optimum treatment by skilled clinicians, in an appropriate environment. All patients are invited to spend some time visiting the hospital to which they are referred, prior to admission.

Each patient receives an intense 13 week period of assessment during which appropriate risk management and treatment plans are constructed by the multi-disciplinary team, and where possible, involving the patient as an active participant. At the end of the thirteen week assessment period a bespoke care pathway and discharge plan will be discussed with the purchaser as part of the Care Programme Approach.

The patient’s treatment plan is managed by a multi-disciplinary team comprising a psychiatrist, with additional medical support, nursing, psychological therapists, occupational therapists, social workers and mental health act administration. The focus of the rehabilitation process is to achieve the optimum level of independent living for each patient, and extend the hospital based care pathway to independent or supported living within the community or residential services.

The care pathway approach across our hospital and residential services offers patients and service users the opportunity to transfer down the pathway into wards within the Independent Hospitals, or into residential homes which offer more autonomy, or up the care pathway during times of clinical need. The progress of patients and service users through the care pathway is supported by a robust approach to clinical governance, and supported by clinical audit and a centrally driven staff training programme.

The residential services provide a similar multi-disciplinary approach to care. Service users are encouraged to develop social and living skills in order to maximise their independence, and prepare them as fully as possible for a further move towards true community based living.

The routes through our step-up and step-down services are shown on the attachment below.