Updated 26 June 2019
Weaver Lodge provides mental health inpatient rehabilitation in a 20-bedded community rehabilitation unit for people aged 18 to 65 years. The service consists of 18 en-suite rooms and two rehabilitation flats. They admit both informal patients and patients who have been detained under the Mental Health Act (1983). Alternative Futures Group Limited, which is a registered charity, runs Weaver Lodge. They are a North West-based organisation who provide a range of inpatient and community services for individuals with mental health problems and/or a learning disability.
The registered manager had been in place for the last year.
Weaver Lodge is registered to provide the following regulated activities:
• assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983
• diagnostic and screening procedures
• treatment of disease, disorder, or injury.
The service model at Weaver Lodge had changed, the service was longer-term accommodation. The service now took patients on a 2-year programme, therefore in the last 12 months the service had discharged 12 patients.
Weaver Lodge is a community rehabilitation unit, Alternative Futures Group refer to their rehabilitation units as treatment and recovery centres.
Local clinical commissioners have block booked 14 beds at the service.
We have inspected Weaver Lodge six times since they registered with CQC in December 2010. At the last inspection in October 2016, we rated Weaver Lodge as good in all five of the key questions: safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led.
There was an unannounced Mental Health act Monitoring visit which took place on 20 August 2018. Issues found on this visit have been addressed by the provider.