Service details

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, the ward covers patients who come from all five 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.