Women's medium secure services (The Orchard unit)

To help service users heal and recover from psychological abuse and trauma, the environment is designed to be:

• Positive
• Safe
• Self-affirming.

A multi-disciplinary team considers the specific care and treatment needs of individuals. Their aim is to encourage active engagement. 

Care is focused on recovery. Services are co-produced, meaning everything is done with a high level of consultation and engagement with the service users, who make active choices about their care.

The Orchard unit is on the St Bernard’s Hospital site in Ealing. 

It comprises:

• Main entrance and reception area 
• Glazed central atrium with a cafe
• Secure garden around the building
• Six wards.

There is a high fence around the unit for security.

We recognise and value carers as key partners in supporting service users on the road to recovery. We’ll work with you and support you as much as possible in your caring role.

You can be identified as a carer if you have sustained and regular social contact with a service user. So, you could be a relative, a friend or someone else who cares for them. If you’re identified as a carer, you can be part of their care planning process.

West London NHS Trust is signed up to the Triangle of Care, a national programme developed by staff and carers to ensure collaboration between the service user, professional and carer. 

The unit offers:

• Women’s Enhanced Medium Secure Services (WEMSS). This provides 20 beds for the catchment area of England.
• Medium secure services and low secure services. These include the 40 beds for the local catchment and North London Partnership Area.

Service users arrive at the Orchard from:

• The courts
• High secure services
• Psychiatric units with conditions of lesser security.

All referrals will be considered through a multi-disciplinary admissions panel.