Gender: Female
Age: 18+
Beds: 12
Billington Ward, our new 12 bed female PICU, will accept emergency and crisis admissions. Referrals will come to us from all areas, including acute services. Billington Ward will open in September 2024.
Our aim is a short, rapid intervention to help individuals regain a sense of control and order in their lives, so they can move to a less restrictive care setting and ultimately return home.
Billington Ward will provide expert, intensive, short-term, individualised care for women detained under the Mental Health Act. Individuals will present with increased risks that require them to be assessed and treated in a PICU environment.
Our service user profile:
- Women, aged 18+ years
- Detained under the Mental Health Act or informal
- Experiencing difficulties that present a risk to the well-being of themselves or others that cannot be treated in an open environment
- Diagnoses may include:
- Acute mental illness
- Acute depressive illness
- Psychosis
- Schizophrenia
- Bi-polar disorder
- Personality disorder
- Dual diagnosis
- May present with co-morbid presentations:
- Self-harm
- Substance misuse issues