Mill Garth

Updated 21 September 2026

We inspected Mill Garth on 7 and 8 July 2026.

Mill Garth is a 19-bed rehabilitation ward for working age adults who have complex mental health issues. Mill Garth registered with the Care Quality Commission in March 2016, and the service opened in December 2016. Following the successful merger of two providers in December 2016, Mill Garth forms part of Priory Healthcare although it operates under Partnerships in Care.

Mill Garth is registered to provide 3 regulated activities:

• Assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the Mental Health Act
• Diagnostic and screening procedures
• Treatment of disease, disorder or injury

At this inspection we inspected 1 assessment service group: Long stay or rehabilitation mental health wards for working age adults, which is the only assessment service group operated from this location.

The reason for this inspection was due to the age of the previous ratings. We reviewed all quality statements across all five key questions at this inspection.

We rated the service as good overall.

Updated 16 December 2025

We inspected Mill Garth on 7 and 8 July 2026.

Mill Garth is a 19-bed rehabilitation and recovery service for men aged 18 years and over who have complex mental health issues. It comprises of one 17-bed ward and 2 bespoke therapeutic units. These are individualised rehabilitation and recovery services designed for individuals with complex needs.

Mill Garth registered with the Care Quality Commission in March 2016, and the service opened in December 2016. Following the successful merger of two providers in December 2016, Mill Garth forms part of Priory Healthcare although it operates under Partnerships in Care.

Mill Garth is registered to provide 3 regulated activities:

• Assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the Mental Health Act
• Diagnostic and screening procedures
• Treatment of disease, disorder or injury

At our previous inspection in November 2019, the service was rated good overall. We rated the service good for safe, caring, responsive and well led, and requires improvement for effective because patients did not all have a lockable cabinet in their bedrooms and governance systems did not always identify when practice was not in keeping with the provider’s policy.

The reason for this inspection was due to the age of the previous ratings. We reviewed all quality statements across all five key questions at this inspection.

We rated the service as good across all domains and good overall because:

• Staff received lessons learned from the investigation of incidents, complaints and safeguarding concerns, both internal and external to the service. Staff met to discuss lessons learned and were debriefed and received support after incidents.
• Staff understood how to protect patients from abuse and the service worked well with other agencies to do so.
• Staff we spoke with understood the patient group including individual risks, and how they needed to engage with them.
• Patient bedrooms now contained lockable cabinet to store personal possessions and to enable them progress through the stages of self-medication.
• There was evidence of effective joint working. Managers had regular engagement with stakeholders and external services, inviting them to regular meetings and care programme approach meetings.
• There were robust processes in place for the investigation and management of complaints.
• Staff encouraged patients to live healthy lives, and there were a range of activities available to them.
• There were effective governance systems in place.
• There were quality improvement projects in place which aimed to improve the quality-of-care patients received.