Kemsley, National Centre for Brain Injury Rehabilitation at St Andrew’s Healthcare in Northampton, has over 25 years of experience in brain injury rehabilitation and, in conjunction with the University of Northampton's School of Health, is now pleased to offer an opportunity to study one of its modular courses in Brain Injury Awareness (Level 2) or Brain Injury Management (Level 3). For more details, please click here.
Rt Hon Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families visited the Adolescent Service on Thursday 18 October with local MP Sally Keeble. The visiting party were keen to meet service users and find out what they thought of the help they received at
St Andrew’s and where they saw their future. They took special interest in the quality of the environment and the programme developed for therapy and education.
The visitors were interested in St Andrew’s vision for the future, and were told by Richard Walker, Head of Learning, that it is to significantly increase learning opportunities for young people by developing externally accredited vocational courses on site.
On leaving, a rather profound statement was made by the politicians, "Everywhere should be as good as this".
St Andrew’s Healthcare and Cygnet Health Care Limited have come to an amicable agreement to dissolve their Acute Psychiatry Joint Venture, which has operated at Harrow since 1991, and at Isham House in Northampton since 2000. Dr Philip Sugarman, Medical Director and Chief Executive at St Andrew’s explains "In earlier years, there were real service benefits in bringing together St Andrew’s facilities and Cygnet’s experience in the acute psychiatry sector. However both organisations have since grown substantially, and it is now time for us to move on".
From 1 September 2007 St Andrew’s will take back Isham House at Northampton, which provides an increasingly specialist range of mental health and challenging behaviour services, including a specialist eating disorders unit, and a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU), as well as inpatient, day and outpatient care in mental health and substance misuse. The wider development of St Andrew’s care pathways for men and women at Northampton, including brand new facilities, provides exciting opportunities for service innovations at Isham House in the future. St Andrew’s has agreed to lease Bowden House at Harrow to Cygnet for up to five years, giving Cygnet time to relocate the service, and St Andrew’s the opportunity to develop a new facility at Bowden House in the longer term. Cygnet will acquire full ownership of the small Westlands unit nearby.
This study of interrater reliability took place within three services at
St Andrew's Healthcare, and for most items HoNOS-secure proved to be a reliable measure of outcome. Results suggest that HoNOS-secure is a promising outcome measure for users of forensic and secure services.
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In 2008, St Andrew's Healthcare will be hosting several prestigious national mental health conferences. Topics include ASD, Huntington's Disease, and the role of Occupational Therapy in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. For further details about these events, please click on the links on the left of this page.
St Andrew’s Group of Hospitals launched its new name at the start of November 2006; St Andrew’s Healthcare, together with a refreshed logo in a move to reflect its increasingly diverse portfolio of services and care pathways. The new St Andrew’s identity is also more inclusive of the community focus and social care aspects of the Charity’s work.
“As a not for profit charity growing and diversifying its services through innovation and investment, we want to ensure both our name and identity more closely reflect our strategy,” says Philip Sugarman, Chief Executive and Medical Director.
Responding to market needs and building on its existing strengths and successes, St Andrew’s Healthcare continues to provide an expanding range of services for men, women and young people with a variety of mental disorders, learning disabilities and acquired brain injuries.
As always, St Andrew’s Healthcare will be exhibiting at a number of national mental health events this year. To find out which events you can meet us at, please click here.
Other news....
Research and Clinical Seminars 2008
Open Days 2008
Exhibitions 2008
Health of the Nation Outcome Scales
The Forensic Directory
Volunteer Administration System
New Union Agreement
Human Rights Project