The Priory Hospital Chelmsford

Description

About us
We are the largest independent provider of mental health specialist care and specialist education services in the United Kingdom by number of beds focusing on the provision of acute psychiatry secure and rehabilitation services complex care specialist education and elderly care and one of the top three independent providers of secure and rehabilitation services in the United Kingdom by number of beds As of 31 December 2010 we have 66 facilities and approximately 3400 available beds located throughout the United Kingdom

We focus on complex patients and pupils with mostly nondiscretionary health care and educational needs ie having longterm material consequences if not treated Our skilled multidisciplinary teams of consultant psychiatrists doctors nurses and professional carers assess each patients and pupils needs and develop a tailored therapeutic or educational programme to allow patients and pupils to move along the care pathway and meet their treatment goals

Individual care pathways are constantly reviewed and therapeutic care and medical inputs adapted to ensure that treatment is relevant and appropriate and where possible to enable patients to either return to the community or take a suitable longterm placement We offer programmes which integrate education care and therapy services that are tailored according to individual needs Access to a wide range of therapies is available including psychiatry psychology speech and language therapy counselling anger management counselling psychotherapy and occupational therapy

History

History
The Priory Hospital Roehampton is Londons longest established independent psychiatric hospital and has been in continuous operation since its launch in 1872 by Dr William Wood a psychiatrist of great distinction at a time when there were no specific treatments for severe mental illness

The Priory Group was created in 1980 with the purchase of the Priory Hospital Roehampton by an American healthcare company Over the following decades the Group acquired more hospitals and diversified its services into acute psychiatry addictions secure mental health care specialist complex care and rehabiltation In 1993 the Priory Group moved into specialist education services with the purchase of Jacques Hall Foundation then an adolescent therapeutic community in Manningtree Essex

In 2000 Priory was acquired by Westminster Health Care Group which merged the business with its existing mental health facilities to form the Priory Group In 2002 Doughty Hanson backed the management buyout of the Priory Group In July 2005 Priory was sold to ABN AMRO which was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2007 Over the course of 2008 Philip Scott and Jason Lock joined us as CEO and CFO respectively Prior to joining us they held the same positions at Southern Cross Our Care homes for the elderly division was established in May 2009 In March 2010 we acquired the Affinity Group to expand our facility base and increase our range of care offerings In January 2011 we were acquired by Advent International