Barnt Green

Updated 7 August 2026

We inspected the key questions of Safe and Well-Led in February 2026. At our previous assessment in May 2025, we rated this key question requires improvement. The service was in breach of legal regulation in relation to Regulation 12 Safe care and treatment. The service has made improvements and is no longer in breach of regulation. The provider now has systems and processes in place to ensure staff can safely support patients to seclusion. The ward environments on Jubilee and Clent wards are now clean and well maintained. At this assessment the rating has changed to good.

Updated 4 August 2026

We visited Barnt Green mental health hospital on 25 February 2026. Barnt Green is a 33 bedded independent hospital in Lickey Hills, Birmingham, providing care and treatment to people who are experiencing mental illness. We assessed the service to review the progress made against the warning notices that were served on the provider following the inspection in May 27 and 28 May 2025. We found that the service had made improvements and had addressed the concerns in the warning notices.

Barnt Green mental health hospital was registered with CQC in August 2020 to deliver the regulated activities: Assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 and Treatment of disease, disorder or injury. The service had a Registered Manager.

We visited the following wards as part of the assessment:

• Beacon ward is a 10 bedded mixed gender private acute mental health ward for adults of working age.
• Jubilee is a 13 bedded mixed gender NHS acute mental health ward for adults of working age.
• Clent ward is a 10 bedded female NHS psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) for adults of working age.

Mental Capacity Act Compliance Summary

Mental Capacity Act

Staff received and kept up to date with training on the Mental Capacity Act, this was mandatory for staff, with training compliance at 95%. In addition, staff have completed Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards with compliance at 100%.

The provider had relevant and up-to-date policies and procedures that reflected relevant legislation.

The provider has flash cards with basic principles of the Mental Capacity Act available on all wards as prompts for staff.

Staff completed an assessment of each patient’s capacity to consent to admission and treatment on admission. Further assessments took place during reviews by the multidisciplinary team if required.

At the time of our assessment, no patients had advanced decisions in place.