Providing specialist neuropsychiatric care and treatment, optimising life beyond illness in Newport, South Wales
Address
St Peter’s Hospital, Chepstow Road, Langstone, Newport NP18 2AA
St Peter’s Hospital
To discuss a potential referral to St Peter’s Hospital, please contact:
Becky James Placement Coordinator (Hospitals)
Email: becky.james@iriscaregroup.co.uk
Phone: 02920 348 862
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Overview of the Service
St Peter’s Hospital is a specialist neuropsychiatric service offering expert multidisciplinary assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation for adults with a wide range of neuropsychiatric conditions, complex degenerative neurological disorders, and Acquired Brain Injury.
The hospital has dedicated single gender units providing specialist treatment and nursing care to deliver positive outcomes for our patients, their families and our commissioners.
Our Care Pathways and Model of Care
We deliver individually tailored support based around models of care including Positive Behaviour Support, Active Support, and Iris Care Group’s Building Better Lives programme.
Our care and treatment pathways are evidence-based and psychologically informed, and embed the following key components:
• Positive risk taking
• Strengths based planning and positive behaviour management
• Emphasis on safeguarding
• Robust clinical governance
• Timely discharge planning
• Community reintegration
• Promoting less restrictive practice
• Person-centred outcome-focused planning from admission
Pathways
We offer four dedicated treatment and care pathways. These are:
1
Assessment and Treatment Pathway (up to 16 Weeks)
Our Assessment and Treatment Pathway provides individuals presenting in crisis with rapid access to a comprehensive assessment by our specialist multidisciplinary team.
This pathway focuses on reducing psychological and emotional distress, treating mental and/or physical illness, and formulating a personcentred care and treatment plan over a 16-week period.
This initial period ensures that we understand each patient’s unique needs to inform their longer-term treatment and future rehabilitation, discharge and transition plans, and includes:
• A comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment to develop a tailored, patientcentred treatment plan
• Medication review and optimisation
• Physical health assessment and treatment
• Psychological formulation and baseline therapeutic assessments
• Multifactorial assessment of triggers for behaviours of concern/challenge
• Development of rehabilitation programme
• Development of positive behavioural management plans
• Initial draft of discharge and transition plans
2
Treatment and Wellbeing Pathway
For those who require a longer period of specialist care and rehabilitation, our Treatment and Wellbeing Pathway focuses on formulating and evolving an individualised care plan that provides patients with enhanced support that responds to risks and maximises their quality of life.
Treatment and rehabilitation interventions are delivered by our in-house specialists to meet the specific neuropsychiatric/neurological and physical health needs of each patient, spanning a diverse range of specialisms including:
• Neuropsychiatry
• Psychology
• Physical health management
• Occupational Therapy
• Speech and Language Therapy
• Dietetics
• Physiotherapy
Discharge and Transition Pathway Specialist End of Life Pathway 3 4
Our teams work collaboratively with commissioners, external teams, and families to develop comprehensive, individualised discharge and transition plans, which begin as soon as possible following admission.
These plans are designed to enable our teams to provide effective and evidence-based treatment interventions to achieve pre-agreed outcomes, with the goal of moving people out of hospital in a timely manner.
During the discharge process, we work closely with the individual’s loved ones and our wider staff team to ensure a seamless transition from St Peter’s Hospital – whether that be back to their homes, or to another service or placement. We are also able to help develop new care and treatment plans and provide bespoke training for the new provider.
We have developed a Specialist End of Life pathway in partnership with local palliative care teams, providing dignified, personcentred, and compassionate palliative care services for those who are unable to transition to a nursing home or a hospice setting.
For a small number of our patients, their behaviour may remain challenging as they enter the terminal stages of their illness. Our teams work closely with the individual’s GP practice, families and loved ones, and commissioners to ensure that capacity and best interest decisions are made, and that the individual is as comfortable and pain-free as possible.
This pathway includes emotional, spiritual, and psychological support, pain and symptom management, and additional specialist multidisciplinary support.
Admission Criteria
Providing treatment, care, and rehabilitation for a diverse patient group, the admission criteria at St Peter’s Hospital includes:
• May have a mental health condition, mild learning disability and/or forensic history.
• Behaviours that may challenge.
• May or may not be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 (Amended 2007) or subject to Mental Capacity Act or Ministry of Justice conditions.
Hospital Environment
Located in a picturesque area of Newport in South Wales and designed with patient safety in mind, the hospital incorporates industry-leading dementia and ABI friendly features to create a therapeutic, dignified, and empowering environment for every patient.
Our hospital has a dedicated therapy and activities wing where patients can access a:
• Physical Therapy Room
• Hair Salon & Nail Bar
• Occupational Therapy Kitchen
• Sensory & Relaxation Room
• Reminiscence Room
• IT Suite
• Landscaped garden
Our semi-rural location and fleet of specialist adapted vehicles also enables our patients to engage in a range of community-based therapeutic and leisure activities.
Our Expert Team
St Peter’s Hospital is supported by an experienced specialist multidisciplinary team, which includes:
Consultant Neuropsychiatrists and Psychiatrists
Consultant Neuropsychologists, Clinical Psychologists, and Assistant Psychologists
Registered Mental Health Nurses and Registered General Nurses
Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists
Speech and Language Therapists
Dietitians
Support Workers
Social Workers
Discharge to the Community
At St Peter’s Hospital, discharge planning commences on admission, and goal setting and outcomes are developed with this in mind. Our aim is to ensure that every patient who comes through our doors develops the life skills and independence to ultimately move on to successful community living.
During their stay with us we support each person to develop a Moving On Pack. This is a personally tailored tool to enable people to maintain and sustain their recovery in the community. This provides support on how to manage crisis, identify signs, and prevent relapse, and offers guidance on how to succeed in the new placement. It also gives information on support in the community and signposting.
Working in collaboration with commissioners, there are several discharge pathways that we offer. These are:
• A seamless continuity of care through the provision of a step-down and rehabilitation pathway within one of our specialist community-based residential services.
• Other support services within the Iris Care Group pathway, including Specialist Nursing Care.
• Another service identified for move on whilst working with our external partners.
• Re-patriation.
As part of the discharge pathway, our specialist MDT will work alongside the patient’s wider MDT and families to produce robust transition plans.
These plans are focused on giving the best possible chance of success for the individual. They consider potential relapse indicators and the work and support that is needed to best support future placements.
Outcomes
At St Peter’s Hospital, we are committed to delivering outcomes that are tailored to meet the individual needs of each patient. Recognising the diversity and complexity of our patient population, we offer bespoke outcome measures that incorporate evidence-based practices specific to their conditions, whilst also considering each person’s unique needs.
We aim to support the following outcomes:
• Symptom reduction
• Improvement in cognitive and physical functioning
• Enhanced quality of life
• Managing or resolving psychiatric symptoms
• Move on into a community setting
Iris Care Group
St Peter’s Hospital is part of Iris Care Group.
Iris Care Group provides the full pathway of services from specialist hospitals, Special Educational Needs College, residential and nursing homes, and supported living.
We use the Clinical Global Impression (CGI) and Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HONOS) amongst other measures. This approach is especially beneficial for patients with degenerative conditions, as the natural progression of their disease requires regular reassessment of their presentation and goals.
Additionally, we offer a comprehensive range of neuropsychological testing, enabling us to customise and continually review our patients’ outcomes to ensure optimal care throughout their journey.
With services throughout South Wales and the South West and into the Midlands, we offer support to adults with mental health needs, learning disabilities, Autism and Acquired Brain Injury, including those with forensic histories.
St Peter’s Hospital
Chepstow Road, Langstone
Newport NP18 2AA
Tel: 01633 401 300
referrals@iriscaregroup.co.uk
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