Adult Inpatient Low Secure

The Wheatfield Unit at Berrywood Hospital provides low secure mental health in-patient care for patients who have been detained under the Mental Health Act and stepped-down from a medium secure unit who may have previously posed a serious risk to public safety. Some are subject to Home Office restrictions. Patients have forensic histories or offending behaviour.

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Adult Inpatient Low Secure

Our adult inpatient low secure mental health service is located at Wheatfield Unit at Berrywood Hospital, Northampton.

Most of our patients will either be stepping down from medium secure placements or have been referred for assessment and treatment from secured services (prisons) via the courts or from other health care providers. Patients on Wheatfield will often have a history of offending and of behaviour considered too high risk to be cared for in open units.

Who is this service for? Men aged between 18 and 65 who have been detained under the Mental Health Act and meet the criteria for low secure care.

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Wheatfield Unit, Berrywood Hospital, Berrywood Drive, Upton, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN5 6UD

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How do I register for this service?

Wheatfield takes referrals only through the IMPACT provider collaborative.

IMPACT can be contacted via e-mail at england.impactreferrals@nhs.net

Contact us

Wheatfield Unit
Berrywood Hospital
Berrywood Drive
Upton
Northampton, NN5 6UD

Telephone: 03000 271788

Mon-Sun: 24 hours

365 days

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IMPACT East Midlands

IMPACT is the East Midlands Provider Collaborative and is made up of the nine NHS and independent sector organisations that jointly provide NHS specialised mental health services in the region.

IMPACT East Midlands

We work as part of the IMPACT East Midlands secure care provider collaborative.

IMPACT brings together these providers:

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (designated lead provider)
Cygnet Health Care
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Elysium Healthcare
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Priory Healthcare
St Andrew’s Healthcare.

IMPACT is the East Midlands Provider Collaborative and is made up of the nine NHS and independent sector organisations that jointly provide NHS specialised mental health services in the region.

You can find out more about IMPACT East Midlands online.

More about our therapeutic programme

Our therapeutic programme delivers a range of treatments and activities including:

offence related interventions
risk management
sports and exercise therapy
social skills work
anger management
a variety of living skills interventions.

The interventions take place both within the unit and in the local community.

All referrals to Wheatfield come through the IMPACT provider collaborative. Wheatfield offers beds to patients across the East Midlands as decided by the needs of the collaborative. Where possible the collaberative does strive to place patietns as close as possible to their home area.

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