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.

Patients here are offered a range of rehabilitation services, within a safe, secure, therapeutic setting, helping them to reintegrate into their communities.

Although based in the south of the county, referrals are accepted from all areas of Northamptonshire providing a modern, needs-led acute mental health service.

Who is this service for? People aged over 18 who have been detained under the Mental Health Act.

How to access this service: Referrals come from a variety of sources that include the low secure unit, adult mental health treatment wards, out of area placements, private sector providers of rehabilitation.

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

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