- Independent mental health service
Draper House
Assessment report published 20 October 2026
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
We inspected the service on 13 and 14 May 2026, the team consisted of two inspectors and one specialist adviser.
We inspected the service as the last inspection took place on 20 July 2021. That inspection was a focussed inspection that only inspected two key questions, safe and well-led. This inspection was an inspection of all key questions. The service had an overall rating of good at the time of this inspection, with no breaches of the Health and Social Care Act regulations from previous inspections.
Draper House was registered with the CQC in 2019 to deliver the following regulated activities: Assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983, and Treatment of disease, disorder and injury.
Draper House is a 15-bed rehabilitation service located in St Helens. It provides patient focused and evidence-based care which is bespoke to each individual and their needs. Their aim is to plan with the patient their recovery journey from the point of referral to recovery and enable a supportive and transitional discharge period which aims to be facilitated in a seamless manner. The service ethos embraces recovery principles and incorporates interventions which promote and enable the rehabilitation pathway within a locked environment. The service is for female patients over the age of 18 years, with the facility for both patients detained under the Mental Health Act and informal patients, covering complex mental health disorders such as personality disorders. The service has two wards across two floors, Bluebell and Blossom, at the location.
There was a registered manager at the service at the time of inspection.
At this inspection we assessed 1 assessment service group: Long stay or rehabilitation mental health wards for adults of a working age.
Overall, we have rated the service as good.