Priory service overview and philosophy
Welcome to the professional section of the Priory group website.
These pages offer information relevant for professionals involved in healthcare or specialist education including clinicians, commissioners, social workers, teachers, GPs, therapists, local authorities and primary care trusts; they include Priory healthcare outcomes, education outcomes, our seminar and educational programmes and professional resource area.
Overview
Established in 1980, the Priory Group is one of Europe's leading independent providers of care and education for mental health conditions, psychological and psychiatric services including condition management programmes, secure, forensic and step-down services, special education, complex care, neuro-rehabilitation services and care homes for older people. We are also a specialist provider of fostering placements for 'Looked after children'.
Priory's acute psychiatric hospitals offer a comprehensive range of successful, evidence-based inpatient, outpatient and day patient treatment programmes and therapy services for a wide variety of mental health issues, including depression, addictions, eating disorders and child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
Priory secure services is a specialist provider of secure mental health services working in partnership with the NHS.
Priory's specialist services units treat people with enduring mental and physical illnesses, restricted mobility and challenging behaviours that are often the result of organic, degenerative or neurological problems and whose needs cannot be met in conventional environments.
Priory's neuro-rehabilitation centres care for people with a wide range of acquired or progressive neurological disorders, including brain injuries and illness, spinal injuries, brain haemorrhages and stroke.
Priory education services is the UK's leading independent provider of specialist education and care for children and young people aged four to 35 with Asperger's Syndrome (AS), autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD) and specific learning difficulties associated with dyslexia.
Priory care homes for older people our nursing and care homes service offers a dignified and individual service for residents who may be elderly or frail, they may be suffering with dementia and require general nursing care or respite accommodation.
Priory fostering services is a specialist provider of long-term, short-term and respite placements for 'Looked after children'.
For further information about our range of services, treatment, education and care programmes please click on the relevant tab above.