"Kindness and gentleness comes naturally to your nursing staff.”
- Former patient at Priory Hospital Ticehurst
Priory Hospital Norwich provides care for males and females aged 18 years and over who have an acute mental health illness and require timely intervention for assessment and treatment, in order to alleviate symptoms, allowing them to return home as soon as possible. The service helps to meet the increasing demand for acute hospital beds across Norfolk.
Norwich Hospital benefits from its close proximity to the City of Norwich and the local town centre of Attleborough. The site has easy access to occupational and leisure activities in the nearby countryside and coastal area, and is set in secluded, tranquil grounds for patients to relax and recover.
All our patients are supported with acute, complex mental illness using a therapeutic approach. The wards provide a safe and secure environment for people experiencing a deterioration in their mental health which requires an admission to hospital for treatment and stabilisation.
Our services are designed to accept NHS overspill emergency admissions any time of the day or night. This allows us to respond rapidly in times of crisis, for those with the highest levels of acuity.
There is a focus on discharge planning from the point of admission. Priory works closely with referring Trusts to achieve minimum lengths of stay, and are able to provide an extension to NHS care pathways during times of fluctuating demand.
We work with discharge teams to ensure a smooth transition back into the existing community services, or to an individual’s home where possible. Meetings are held with discharge co-ordinators to ensure clear action plans and continuity of care.
"Kindness and gentleness comes naturally to your nursing staff.”
- Former patient at Priory Hospital Ticehurst
Our teams support people in crisis to regain mental wellbeing in order for patients to return to their homes and families. Recovery-focused, patient-centred individualised care is at the heart of our treatment programmes. The teams incorporate the following:
The team work collaboratively with patients and their families to ensure the delivery of bespoke packages of care in line with individually identified outcomes. Our skilled multidisciplinary teams have many years’ experience safely managing complex patients in an acute phase of mental illness, often with behaviours that challenge.
We believe that the environment in which an individual is treated is just as important as the treatment itself. Our hospital is set on a 13 acre site of which there are extensive gardens which can be utilised. Patients have access to the following: