- Care home
Althorp Grange
Assessment report published 11 December 2025
Contents
Ratings - Long stay or rehabilitation mental health wards for working age adults
Our view of the service
We completed an assessment and inspection of Broomhill hospital from 19 to 20 August 2025. At the time of our assessment the service was called Broomhill hospital. Following the August assessment on 2 October 2025, the service was renamed Althorp Grange and is now part of adult social care provision.
This assessment was carried out following CQC’s new approach to assessment; Single Assessment Framework (SAF). We looked at all the quality statements under each key question. This was an unannounced assessment, which meant the provider was not told an assessment was going to take place.
Broomhill hospital provides care, treatment, and support to individuals with mental health concerns. Broomhill is part of St. Matthews Limited, which consists of 4 care homes and 4 hospital locations in Northampton and Coventry. Broomhill is registered to provide 99 beds across one assessment service group (ASG). Long stay rehabilitation for adults of working age consists of 3 wards with a total of 27 people at the hospital. This assessment looked at the long stay rehabilitation wards known as Cottesbrooke a female ward, Kelmarsh and Lamport, both male wards. There is 15 bed step-down service funded by another provider with no people using the service at the time of our assessment. A step-down service is a temporary short-term service that provides an environment for people transitioning from acute hospital settling back into the community, care home or their own home.
Broomhill hospital provides long stay or rehabilitation mental health wards for working adults. The service did not have a registered manager at the time of our assessment but had an acting manager awaiting CQC registration.
Broomhill hospital was registered with CQC in April 2012 to deliver the following regulated activities:
- Assessment or medical treatment for people detained under the Mental Health Act 1983
- Treatment of disease, disorder or injury.
People's experience of this service
We spoke with people and six carers during the inspection. Feedback was mixed from people. People told us about accessing psychology, enjoying the garden areas, taking taxis to the shops. One patient enjoyed walks into Spratton and went out twice a week unescorted for 2 hours. Another patient told us they went out into the community on a weekly basis, with a member of staff for cultural appropriate food shopping. They had been supported to go to church and were satisfied about how much time they went out. A third patient told us they felt included in their care and support planning.
One person on Kelmarsh ward said there were not enough staff for leave at nights and weekends. One carer told us their relatives leave, and therapy sessions had been cancelled due to staff shortages.
We observed one carer was involved in planning their relatives care with the hospital team and said previous hospital placements made their relative more distressed. They said Broomhill hospital was the best place their relative had been and they were settled. They were sorry the service was closing.
While the people we spoke with expressed, they were happy with their care, our assessment found elements of the care did not meet the expected standards.