Barnet Lane Clinic

Ratings - Long stay or rehabilitation mental health wards for working age adults

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Good

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Good

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Barnet Lane Clinic registered with the CQC in March 2023 and is part of the Elysium Healthcare group. Barnet Lane Clinic is a mental health hospital with a high dependency rehabilitative approach to care and treatment for people aged 18 years and over. The service specialises in the treatment of people with personality disorder in addition to working with people with schizophrenia and other mental health disorders. The service provides treatment for both informal patients and those liable to be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 (2007). Barnet Lane Clinic offers accommodation for men and women, provided in separate areas within the Hospital. Adjacent to the main building are four step-down flats and patients can also access a therapy kitchen following individual risk assessment and care planning. There is significant refurbishment work underway since September 2023 with the aim to improve the environmental facilities of the existing building and expand the adult service to an all female service with an acute and rehabilitation pathway. We carried out an overall on-site assessment of the service between the 14th and 19th of February 2024 and 10th April 2024. We carried out this assessment as we had received information giving us concerns about the safety and quality of the service. As this service has not previously been assessed we looked at 33 quality statements relevant to rehabilitation mental health wards. During our assessment we found breaches of the legal regulation in relation to regulation 12, Safe Care and Treatment and regulation 17, Good Governance. There were issues relating to medicine storage and recording, access to vocational and educational opportunities, feedback from some patients who had to wait for female staff to be available to access their needs and continued improvements in relation to carer and patient feedback.