- Independent mental health service
The Farndon Unit
Report from 4 February 2025 assessment
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
The Farndon Unit is registered with the Care Quality Commission as an independent mental health hospital. The hospital, ran by Elysium Healthcare Limited, accommodates up to 47 female patients over the age of 18 years. The service offers assessment, care and treatment to meet the needs of individual patients with a diagnosis of mental illness, personality disorder and learning disability. The hospital consists of a single building built around an internal garden area. There are five ward areas: Bolero, Courtland, Darcy, Ruby Frost and Aster. The Farndon Unit consist of three core services. Forensic inpatient and Acute inpatient and rehabilitation services, we visited 3 wards on this assessment: Bolero ward (Forensic inpatient), Ruby Frost and Darcy wards (Acute inpatient) The service location was last rated as good overall (Published January 2023). We carried out our on-site assessment on 25 September and 26 September 2024. This was an unannounced assessment, which means the provider was not told in advance that we would be attending and assessing the service. During this assessment we looked at 6 quality statements across 2 key questions. Due to assessing 6 quality statements at this visit it means the current rating will remain the same from this assessment. Our new ways of assessing services means that we will visit and assess services more regularly, building a picture of how the service is performing over a period of time. At this assessment we found the service were maintaining safety within the environment, patients felt safe and supported by staff, and involved in their care and treatment, managers supported staff, and appropriate processes were in place to ensure managers had oversight of the service.