Part of the Reach Out Provider Collaborative
A core part of our Birmingham service is our role within the Reach Out Provider Collaborative, the West Midlands Adult Secure Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Provider Collaborative.
Reach Out brings together NHS trusts and independent providers across the West Midlands to coordinate specialised mental health and learning disability and autism commissioning, ensuring patients receive the right care, as close to home as possible. St Andrew’s Healthcare Birmingham is a key partner within this collaborative.
This partnership helps us to:
- Reduce unnecessary out-of-area placements for patient from the West Midlands
- Improve patient outcomes by keeping people closer to family, carers, and local support networks
- Deliver significant NHS cost savings through more effective commissioning
- Share best practice across providers to improve care quality and reduce inequalities
- Promote innovation across secure mental health services
Our services
Overview
| Medium secure | Low secure |
| 30 beds male | 82 beds male , 16 beds female |
Our Birmingham hospital provides specialist medium secure and low secure inpatient services for men and women with complex mental health needs, including those with forensic histories and behaviours that require specialist risk management.
We have particular expertise in:
- Complex and challenging behaviour
- Forensic risk assessment and management
- Personality disorder and severe mental illness
- Recovery and rehabilitation within secure pathways
- Step-down care and discharge planning
Our secure services support individuals who may be transferring from prison, high secure hospitals, other medium secure units, or NHS services requiring specialist forensic mental healthcare.
Medium Secure Services
Our medium secure wards provide assessment and treatment for individuals who require a higher level of therapeutic security due to significant risks associated with mental illness, offending history, or complex behavioural needs.
Male wards
- Edgbaston ward
- Hawkesley ward
This service supports individuals with:
- Mental illness and psychosis
- Personality disorder
- Learning disability
- Substance misuse needs
- Challenging behaviours
- Forensic histories or index offences requiring medium security
Where appropriate, patients can step down into low secure services on site, creating safer and more effective transitions in care.
Low Secure Services
Our low secure wards provide ongoing treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery-focused care for patients progressing through the secure pathway.
Male wards
- Hazelwell ward
- Hurst ward
- Lifford ward
- Northfield ward
- Speedwell ward
Female wards
These services focus on:
- Rehabilitation and recovery
- Managing ongoing risk safely
- Building independence and life skills
- Supporting progression towards discharge
- Preventing readmission into more restrictive settings
Our low secure services provide an important step-down pathway from medium secure care, helping patients transition safely towards community living.
