- Independent mental health service
Nightingale Hospital
Assessment report published 6 August 2025
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
Date of assessment: 28 and 29 April 2025.
Nightingale Hospital is an independent hospital that provides mental health care and treatment for people who may or may not be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. The hospital offers treatment for general psychiatry, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder and addiction for adults as both inpatients and outpatients. The service provides 4 acute wards for adults of working age, an obsessive compulsive disorder ward, a substance misuse and detoxification ward, and a specialist eating disorder service for adults.
We carried out a comprehensive assessment of all mental health acute wards for adults of working age which we rated as good. The rating from acute wards for adults of working age has been combined with ratings of the other services from the last inspections. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at Nightingale Hospital. The overall rating of Nightingale Hospital remains good.
In our assessment of acute wards for adults of working age we found improvements to ligature risk management, care planning and risk management, medicines management, physical health observations, discharge planning and governance arrangements. At this assessment we found improvements in all of these areas. Our rating of acute wards for adults of working age improved. We rated the service as good.