Services

Eden Ward Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is in Lambeth Hospital. We provide low secure, psychiatric hospital care for men, aged 18-65, who have severe and ongoing mental health problems. We care for people who live in the London Borough of Lambeth.

Our team includes health and social care staff from a range of professions. We provide assessments, treatment and intensive nursing care.

A small number of people are brought to hospital under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act. This is a power that police officers can use if someone is in a public place and the police have concerns about them. We have a separate, designated place of safety, a '136 Suite' (Place of Safety), where they can be admitted, assessed and cared for. The police also have powers under the Mental Capacity Act to take someone, either from a public place or their home, to a place of safety - normally this would be to an Emergency Department.

Effra Ward is a 16 bedded ward for male patients located in the River House Medium Secure Unit, based at the Bethlem Royal Hospital. Effra provides a service for male forensic patients aged 18 years and over, detained under the MHA (1983) amended 2007, and is a Tier 2 ward located in the River House Medium Secure Unit, based at the Bethlem Royal Hospital.

Both Brook and Effra wards are classified as Tier 2 wards within River House and admit patients from the Tier 1 Admission wards, Norbury and Thames.

Effra Ward operates within the framework of recovery oriented practice, using My Shared Pathway (MSP). Brook encourages service user led involvement at all stages of their recovery and care pathway.

Effra ward takes patients from Lambeth, Southwark and Croydon and sometimes Lewisham. Their placements are funded by NHS England.

The expected length of stay in this ward will be approximately 6 to 18 months.

Eileen Skellern 1 (ES1) is a psychiatric intensive care ward (PICU) at the Maudsley Hospital. We offer care for women, aged 16-65, who live in the London Borough of Southwark.

Our team includes health and social care staff from a range of professions. We provide secure psychiatric and intensive hospital care for people who have severe and ongoing mental illnesses whose behaviour makes them unsafe, either to themselves or others, and who cannot be treated in an open ward.

We provide assessment, treatment and intensive nursing care.

A small number of people are brought to hospital under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act. This is a power that police officers can use if someone is in a public place and the police have concerns about them. We have a separate, designated place of safety, a '136 Suite', where they can be admitted, assessed and cared for. The police also have powers under the Mental Capacity Act to take someone, either from a public place or their home, to a place of safety - normally this would be to an Emergency Department.

**Due to Covid this service is temporarily closed**

Eileen Skellern 2 Ward (ES2) is a ward at the Maudsley Hospital. We provide inpatient care for men, aged 16-65, who have severe mental illness. We provide care for people who live in the London Borough of Southwark.

Acute illnesses start quickly and have distressing symptoms. We aim to ensure that people with acute mental illness who need 24 hour hospital care are safe and receive the assessment and treatment they need.

The Enhanced recovery Team assesses people, aged 18-65, who have severe, long-term mental illness and require support in a residential home or high support. We provide care for people living in the London Borough of Lewisham.

We work closely with housing providers, the patient and their carers to help people move into the most appropriate residential home for their needs.

We also do placement reviews of people who are funded by Lewisham and live out of borough.

This unique outpatient service provides assessment and evidence-based treatments for women who suffer from serious mental health conditions, including psychosis and severe depression, at times of hormonal change (for example, pre-menstrual, peri and post-menopausal).

A subgroup of women experience highly significant cognitive, mood and neurological disorders associated with fluctuation of sex hormone levels. These windows of vulnerability can occur pre-menstrually, post-natally, or around the time of menopause. Although the underlying cause of these problems may include a complex interaction between psychological and social factors, there is increasing evidence that biological factors are also important.

Our team includes international experts in gynaecological endocrinology, psychiatry, psychology and neurology. They provide evidence-based treatments to manage disorders like premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), peri and post-menopausal mood and memory disorders, cyclical epilepsy and women with neurodevelopmental disorders (for example, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)).

There is a growing body of research that supports the use of specific nutritional, hormonal and non-hormonal (for example, psychological) treatments in the management of these disorders. It is, however, difficult to access expert, unbiased help. We have developed our national service, which is specifically designed to meet this need.

Fitzmary 1 ward and Gresham 1 ward are Croydon's dedicated female only inpatient units. We offer a comprehensive assessment, care and treatment service. Our treatment programme is aligned with the Recovery model and our inpatient staff work closely with our community services to ensure our patients receive the best care both during and after discharge.

The Forensic Intensive Psychological Treatment Service (FIPTS) was developed in 2004 in partnership with the Ministry of Justice and Department of Health to treat and manage high risk offenders with severe personality disorder. In 2016 FIPTS community team became an Intensive Intervention and Risk Management Service (IIRMS) as part of the National Offender Personality Disorder strategy jointly funded by NHS England and NOMS (National Offender Management Service).

The FIPTS IIRMS Community Team is multi-disciplinary and adopts an evidence based psycho-social approach to working with service users. As well as helping our clients reduce or stop violent offending we also strive to help improve the quality of their relationships and assist them to achieve success in other important areas such as employment, education and community living. Our main focus is to promote independence and improve the quality of life of all our clients whilst reducing their risk of recidivism.

Referrals are accepted from secure services and probation offices within the appropriate catchment area.

Who is suitable to be referred to FIPTS?

• Male or female 18 years or older
• Must be subject to s37/41 of the Mental Health Act or subject to a probation order and screened in to the Offender Personality Disorder pathway
• Diagnosis or problematic traits of personality disorder
• Forensic history of violent and/or sexual offending
• A willingness to engage in psychological treatment and management
• Client presenting a high level of risk for future violent and/or sexual offending
• Functional link between personality disorder and risk for violent and/or sexual offending
• IQ of 70 or more
• Catchment areas of Lambeth,Southwark or Wandsworth

We provide low secure and medium secure forensic services. The purpose of our service is to ensure that mentally disordered offenders are assessed and treated effectively, in the least restrictive environment. We aim to manage the risk, reduce further offending and support recovery throughout the person’s stay.

Our services

• Brook ward
• Chaffinch ward
• Effra ward
• Forensic Intensive Psychological Treatment Service (FIPTS)
• Spring ward
• Thames ward
• Waddon ward
• Ward in the Community

Gresham Ward 1 is part of Bethlem Royal Hospital. We offer services for women, aged 16-65, who have acute mental illness and require 24 hour hospital care. Acute illnesses start quickly and have distressing symptoms.
 

Gresham Ward 2 is part of Bethlem Royal Hospital. We offer services for men, aged 18-65, who have acute mental illness and require 24 hour hospital care. Acute illnesses start quickly and have distressing symptoms.

We provide care for people who live in the London Borough of Croydon.

We offer psychiatric assessment, care and treatment in hospital, which helps to reduce the risk to self and others.

Our service brings together teams of health and social care professionals, including nurses, social workers and psychiatrists.

Hayworth Ward is in the Ladywell Unit at University Hospital Lewisham. We provide inpatient assessment, treatment and care for people aged over 65 with acute mental illness or under 65 for people who have dementia.

We care for older adults who are admitted to hospital in a crisis. We support them back into the community.

The Helping Families Team is an innovative community-based team that is working to improve outcomes for families in which parents are affected by mental health difficulties.

We aim to bridge the gaps between CAMHS, adult mental health, education, and children's services by providing:

• Early intervention and support in collaboration with alongside existing services
• Specialist parenting assessment and intervention to parents with mental health difficulties and complex psychosocial needs
• Specialist advice, consultation, and training

Our team uses a proactive outreach and therapeutic approach to positively engage families. The team primarily works with parents, however, we do also work directly with children and young people, where appropriate.

The Team's work uses a whole-family approach that:

• Improves the life chances of children, builds family resilience, and reduces risk
• Recognises the inter-related needs of children, parents, and the family as a whole
• Uses partnership-based and family focused approaches that share and enhance the knowledge and expertise of the family and professional network
• Tailors effective invention, care, and support to meet the needs of the family.

The Helping Families team is a programme developed by the Centre for Parent and Child Support (CPCS). We work in partnership with other programmes developed by CPCS:

• Empowering Parents Empowering Communities
• Family Partnership Model