St Andrews Healthcare Northampton

Updated 20 January 2025

Date of assessment: 30 & 31 July and 21 August 2024. St Andrew's Healthcare is a registered charity specialising in the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of people with psychiatric disorders, including people with developmental disabilities. St. Andrews Hospital has five divisions; child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), autism spectrum disorder and learning disability (ASD/LD), medium secure, low secure and specialist rehabilitation, and neuropsychiatry. This assessment looked at the neuropsychiatry division which was undertaken in response to identified risks. During the inspection we inspected all quality statements under safe, and well-led. We also inspected specific quality statements under effective, caring and responsive, which had been selected based on identified risks and concerns. The rating from the neuropsychiatry division has been combined with ratings of the other services from the last inspections. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at St Andrews Hospital Northampton. The rating of St Andrews Hospital Northampton remains requires improvement.

Updated 16 July 2024

St Andrew's Healthcare is a registered charity specialising in the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of people with psychiatric disorders, including people with developmental disabilities. St. Andrews Healthcare provides services on three main sites: Northampton, Birmingham and Essex. This assessment took place in Northampton, which had five divisions: child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), services for people with a learning disability and autistic people, medium secure, low secure and specialist rehabilitation, and neuropsychiatry. The last inspection of the neuropsychiatry division took place between the 18 and 20 October 2022. This was an unannounced inspection, triggered by the receipt of information, which gave us concerns about the safety and quality of services on one ward in this core service. The information of concern was received by CQC between July and September 2022. Our last comprehensive inspection of this service was in June 2016 and a follow up inspection in May 2017. The concerns received included the following: safe staffing levels and how incidents were safely managed, physical healthcare and care of the deteriorating patient. The overall rating for the inspection was requires improvement with safe and well led rated requires improvement. There was insufficient evidence available to rate effective. We looked at 23 Quality Statements across all 5 Key Questions. This was an unannounced focused inspection of the neuropsychiatry division which was undertaken in response to identified risks. During the inspection we inspected all quality statements under safe, and well-led. We also inspected specific quality statements under effective, caring and responsive, which had been selected based on identified risks and concerns. This inspection was rated based on our findings.

Updated 16 September 2016

• Bayley ward is a medium secure inpatient ward that can accommodate up to 10 children and adolescent males with learning disabilities / autistic spectrum disorder.

• Heygate ward is a medium secure inpatient ward that can accommodate up to 10 children and adolescent males with learning disabilities / autistic spectrum disorder.

• Fenwick ward is a low secure inpatient ward that can accommodate up to 10 children and adolescents females with neuro-disability / autistic spectrum disorder.

• Richmond Watson ward is a low secure inpatient ward that can accommodate up to 12 children and adolescent males with complex mental health needs.

• Church ward is a low secure inpatient ward that can accommodate up to 10 children and adolescent males with neuro-disability / autistic spectrum disorder.

• Boardman ward is a low secure inpatient ward that can accommodate up to 11 children and adolescent females with complex mental health needs.

• Heritage ward is a low secure inpatient ward that can accommodate up to 12 children and adolescent females with complex mental health needs.

• John Clare ward is a low secure inpatient ward that can accommodate up to nine children and adolescent females with complex mental health needs.

Updated 11 January 2024

Updated 16 September 2016

• Thornton ward is a locked rehabilitation unit for women.

• Ferguson ward is a locked rehabilitation unit for men.

• Spring Hill House is a locked facility rehabilitation unit for Women offering 23 beds.

Updated 7 August 2017

O’Connell North ward

O’Connell South ward

Compton ward

Updated 16 September 2016

• Sherwood ward is the psychiatric intensive care unit.