Service details

Primary diagnosis of a psychotic illness (i.e schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or bipolar affective disorder

Service users with severe and enduring mental health conditions that require a sustained period of admission and treatment, to be supported with Activities of daily living and access to ongoing support in a community rehab setting. Service users often have complicated dependencies and higher risk factors. 

As the North London NHS Foundation Trust, Sunstone ward covers patients who come from all 5 boroughs which are Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey. 

The service is also for Service users who will have multiple of the following:
•    Treatment resistance
•    On-going positive symptoms of psychosis (e.g. delusions and hallucinations)
•    Prominent negative symptoms (e.g. poor motivation, apathy, disorganisation)
•    Impaired ability to manage activities of daily living (e.g. self-care, shopping, cooking, budgeting)
•    Difficulty coping with community living and managing independent tenancies
•    History of repeated relapses and hospital admissions which may have been prolonged
•    History of risk to themselves, often due to serious self-neglect
•    History of risk to others including possible forensic involvement
•    Co-morbid mental disorders (e.g. personality disorder, depression, anxiety, OCD etc.)
•    Cognitive impairment (as a result of premorbid learning disability, developmental disorders, brain injury or their longstanding psychosis)
•    Complex physical health co-morbidities.