St Andrews Healthcare Northampton

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Requires improvement

• Responsive

  Good

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

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 and challenging behaviours. The providers’ vision is to be the national leader in specialist mental health care.

St Andrews Hospital Northampton has five service divisions. These are:

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS),

• Autism Spectrum Disorder and Learning Disability Division (ASD/LD)

• Medium Secure Division,

• Low Secure and Specialist Rehabilitation Division, Acute and Psychiatric Intensive care units and

• Neuropsychiatry Division.

This assessment looked at services within the medium secure division. The Medium Secure Mental Health Division provides mental healthcare to adults (including older adults) males and females, across a spectrum of specialist mental disorders: mental illness, personality disorder, borderline or mild learning disability (where the patient is deaf or has an acquired brain injury), acquired brain injury, and mentally disordered people who are deaf. Care is provided to those who need the relational, physical, and procedural security of a medium secure unit, in line with the National Medium Secure Specifications from NHS England (170042S).

We identified some areas of concern under the safe, caring, and well led key questions which will require an action plan.