HM Mental Health

Craegmoor is investing £1m in a new residential service for people with autistic spectrum condition in Maidstone, Kent. Sapphire House is a purpose-built facility, which will include five en suite bedrooms, one large bedsit and two supported living flats, which will focus on a pathway to independent living in supported tenancies.

Figures released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) this month show that more under-18s were admitted to adult mental health wards in the first eight months of 2013/14 than in the previous year.

The Independent Mental Health Services Alliance (IMHSA) has joined calls for NHS England to scrap the introduction of a differential tariff for mental health services.

Children are still being treated in adult psychiatric units miles from home despite a pledge by the Department of Health to stop the practice in 2010.

Hospital admissions for eating disorders are on the rise, according to new figures releases by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).

The Priory Hospital Glasgow has entered into a partnership with Goldsmith Clinic in Dublin to enable patients requiring inpatient admission to access its services.

Craegmoor, part of the Priory Group of Companies, has acquired specialist residential care and support provider New Directions for an undisclosed sum.

The new Crisis Care Concordat, which aims to dramatically improve emergency care for people suffering mental health crisis, could bring new opportunities for independent sector providers as it pledges to cut the use of police cells for mental health emergency.

Cygnet Hospital Beckton has developed a care programme for pregnant women admitted to their Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit and low secure wards.

Mental health patients are set to be able to choose where they receive care following measures announced last month by Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.