- Independent mental health service
Hazelwood House
Assessment report published 27 October 2025
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
Date of Assessment: 16 17 and 18 September 2025.
Priory Hospital Hazelwood House, in Heath, Derbyshire, is a low secure unit for 13 males with mental health needs. The service also supports those who have a learning disability, complex care needs and/or are on the autism spectrum. This hospital provides WAIS and ADOS assessments for patients who may be waiting for an NHS diagnosis.
The secure services offer comprehensive support to people with complex mental health needs. The service provision is modelled on the NHS secure service specification for medium and low secure services, ensuring patients are given the highest quality of care to enable quick and smooth transitions into local services, wherever possible. The service is committed to delivering clinically effective, evidence-based treatment programmes for individuals who require secure care, providing both psychological and physical security.
We assessed the service against ‘Right support, right care, right culture’ guidance to make judgements about whether the provider guaranteed people with a learning disability and/or autistic people respect, equality, dignity, choices, independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted.
The service was last rated as Outstanding (published December 2018). This was an unannounced assessment, which means the provider was not told an assessment was going to be taking place beforehand. During this assessment, we looked at all quality statements across all 5 key questions. As we assessed all quality statements at this visit, the current rating reflects the findings from this assessment. We rated this service as Good.