Updated 24 December 2021
Mayfield House is a six bedded rehabilitation unit for patients that are recovering from mental illness. It is owned and operated by the Priory Group and forms part of a rehabilitation pathway that has been developed to provide step down facilities to patients at their 24 -bedded hospital. It is a unit specifically for women between the age of 18 and 65.
The unit has been open since 2014. It was last inspected in January 2020 and was rated good overall at that time. The unit provides community-based rehabilitation and promotes independent living.
The service is registered for the following regulated activities:
- Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
The building is a large house with six bedrooms, two lounge areas and a kitchen and dining area. There is also a small room set aside as a nursing office. On the top floor is a large room that doubles as a storage room and staff area. The only rooms that are locked are the nursing office and upstairs storeroom. Patients have keys to their own bedrooms, which they can lock if required. The unit has an open front door and patients are encouraged to come and go whenever they want. The door is locked at night for security reasons, but informal patients can leave at any time.
There is a registered manager shared between Mayfield House and another Priory hospital nearby.
The deputy ward manager is the only qualified nurse and is solely responsible for monitoring medication. The two services also share a psychiatrist and a psychologist who develop treatment and care plans and have regular input into the day-to-day care of the patient group. All other staff members are health care support workers who have undergone training to allow them to administer medication and take bloods.
At the time of the inspection we were informed by patients and staff of the forthcoming closure of Mayfield house. The service only had three patients since January 2021 and had not received any referrals in that time. All patients had been allocated assessed placements to move to when the unit closed on the 25th October 2021.
What people who use the service say
Patients were very complimentary about staff and spoke highly of them and the service. They stated staff could not do enough for them and it was the best place to come to when patients were ready to return to the community and practice independent living skills.
Patients were also disappointed that the unit was closing and felt although they were involved in decisions concerning their treatment and care that in this case they were not consulted.