Luciana Berger – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-12-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of publicly-funded child and adolescent mental health in-patient services are provided by private providers; what the names of those providers are; how many and what types of services each such provider provides; and what proportion of all privately-provided services such services represent.
Alistair Burt
Approximately 47% of in-patient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are provided by independent providers.
The table below contains a list of the specialised commissioned CAMHS and the names of the independent providers who provided these services in 2014/15.
Acute – Adolescent Inpatient |
Alpha Hospitals |
Cambian Healthcare |
Oak View |
Riverdale Grange |
Acute – Adolescent Inpatient |
Priory |
Acute – Adolescent Inpatient (High Dependency Unit) |
Priory |
Acute – Child Inpatient |
Cygnet Healthcare |
Plymouth Community Healthcare |
Eating Disorder – Adolescent Inpatients |
Newbridge |
Eating Disorders – Adolescent Inpatient |
CareUK |
Ellern Mede Centre For Eating Disorders |
Priory |
The Huntercombe Group |
Eating Disorders – Adolescent Inpatient High Dependency |
CareUK |
Eating Disorders – Adolescent Short term Intensive |
CareUK |
Low Secure – CAMHS |
The Huntercombe Group |
Low Secure Female and Male |
Priory |
Low Secure Learning Disabled |
Oak View |
Low Secure Male MI |
Alpha Hospitals |
Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit |
The Huntercombe Group |
Alpha Hospitals |
Priory |
Secure and Specialised Mental Health Services (Child) |
Low Secure Female Autistic Spectrum Disorder |
St Andrews |
Low Secure Female Learning Disabled |
St Andrews |
Low Secure Female Mental Illness |
St Andrews |
Low Secure Male Autistic Spectrum Disorder |
St Andrews |
Low Secure Male Learning Disabled |
St Andrews |
Low Secure Male Mental Illness |
St Andrews |
The proportion of CAMHS spend with these independent providers represents approximately 23% of the total mental health spend on independent providers (based on 2014/15 figures).