- Independent mental health service
St Andrews Healthcare Northampton
We have taken urgent enforcement action by imposing a condition on St Andrew's Healthcare's registration on 14 July 2025 to keep service users safe by restricting new admissions at St Andrew's Healthcare Northampton. We have also imposed a number of conditions on St Andrew's Healthcare registration on 10 November 2025 to require the provider to make improvements in the safety and quality of care provided relating to; staffing, ward environments, blanket restrictions, risk management, observations, incident management, governance and systems and processes.
Assessment report published 20 January 2025
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
Date of assessment: 30 & 31 July and 21 August 2024. St Andrew's Healthcare is a registered charity specialising in the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of people with psychiatric disorders, including people with developmental disabilities. St. Andrews Hospital has five divisions; child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), autism spectrum disorder and learning disability (ASD/LD), medium secure, low secure and specialist rehabilitation, and neuropsychiatry. This assessment looked at the neuropsychiatry division which was undertaken in response to identified risks. During the inspection we inspected all quality statements under safe, and well-led. We also inspected specific quality statements under effective, caring and responsive, which had been selected based on identified risks and concerns. The rating from the neuropsychiatry division 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 St Andrews Hospital Northampton. The rating of St Andrews Hospital Northampton remains requires improvement.