PRIORY GROUP - CENTRAL OFFICE

We focus on complex patients and pupils, with mostly non-discretionary health care and educational needs (i.e. having long-term material consequences if not treated). Our skilled, multi-disciplinary teams of consultant psychiatrists, doctors, nurses and professional carers assess each patient’s and pupil’s needs and develop a tailored therapeutic or educational programme to allow patients and pupils to move along the care pathway and meet their treatment goals.

Individual care pathways are constantly reviewed and therapeutic care and medical inputs adapted to ensure that treatment is relevant and appropriate and, where possible, to enable patients to either return to the community or take a suitable long-term placement. We offer programmes which integrate education, care and therapy services that are tailored according to individual needs. Access to a wide range of therapies is available, including psychiatry, psychology, speech and language therapy, counselling, anger management counselling, psychotherapy and occupational therapy.

History

The Priory Hospital Roehampton is London's longest established independent psychiatric hospital and has been in continuous operation since its launch in 1872 by Dr. William Wood, a psychiatrist of great distinction at a time when there were no specific treatments for severe mental illness.

The Priory Group was created in 1980 with the purchase of the Priory Hospital, Roehampton by an American healthcare company. Over the following decades the Group acquired more hospitals and diversified its services into acute psychiatry, addictions, secure mental health care, specialist complex care and rehabiltation. In 1993 the Priory Group moved into specialist education services with the purchase of Jacques Hall Foundation, then an adolescent therapeutic community, in Manningtree, Essex.