The Priory Group is Europe's leading independent provider of acute mental health services, secure and step-down services, specialist education, complex care and neuro-rehabilitation services, working in partnership with the public and independent sectors. Their purpose is to work with their patients, residents and students to help them take control of their lives and achieve their maximum potential.
Treatments offered
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 complex care hospitals and neuro-rehabilitation centres 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.
Drug and alcohol addiction treatment
The Priory Group is the UK's leading independent provider of addiction treatment services. Priory has more patients in treatment and offers more individual treatment time than any other UK provider. At any point in time Priory has 100 - 110 patients in a variety of addiction treatment programmes across 15 hospitals, helping over 1,200 people with addictions issues annually.
Eating disorder treatment
Priory is the UK's leading independent provider of eating disorder services. They have a number of specialist units in their hospitals with a flexible range of programmes to treat anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and EDNOS (eating disorders not otherwise specified). They also accept emergency admissions.
Equine assisted psychotherapy
Most equine-assisted psychotherapy (EAP) programmes are based on the belief that people who are susceptible to addictions have a baseline of unresolved historic trauma creating an unbearable level of anxiety that leads to self-medication with alcohol, drugs, food, sex and other behaviours. EAP successfully helps treat addictions patients by providing a powerful and moving experiential therapy for trauma resolution that incorporates teaching and practising essential life skills; riding is not a part of EAP.
The Priory Group has incorporated EAP programmes as part of their highly successful addiction treatment programmes at the Priory Hospital North London and the Priory Hospital Roehampton.
Adolescent addiction treatment
Psychiatric disorders are three times more common among young people who use alcohol regularly than among teenagers who do not drink. As a response to this The Priory Hospital North London has launched a new adolescent addictions treatment unit for young people aged 12 - 18 with alcohol problems.
Early intervention is essential for successful clinical outcomes and quality of life. Any teenager with a family history of drug or alcohol abuse and/or a lack of social skills can move rapidly from experimentation to patterns of serious abuse or dependency.
Once Priory's adolescent patients are “chemically comfortable” an intensive psychotherapy programme tackles the issues behind the addiction. Group and individual therapy and intensive family work form the cornerstones of the programme, augmented by interventions like equine assisted psychotherapy, creative writing, meditation and occupational therapy.
Locations
The Priory have dozens of mental health clinics and hospitals throughout the UK. Please select one of the following for further information:
Referrals
Priory welcomes patients from the NHS and the independent sector. They accept referrals from GPs, consultant psychiatrists, PCT commissioners, CAMHS, general adult psychiatry services, drug and alcohol services, and psychotherapists. Priory also accept self-referrals for their addictions treatment programme via a free addictions assessment.
The majority of referrals are made through the patient's GP. A referral can be made to the appropriate hospital's Admissions Office by telephone, e-mail, fax or in writing. The Admissions Office then passes the patient's details on to the appropriate consultant psychiatrist. Priory accept 24/7 referrals. Urgent or out-of-hours appointments and admissions can be arranged immediately by telephoning the appropriate hospital.
Contact details
Priory Central Office
Priory House
Randalls Way
Leatherhead
Surrey
KT22 7TP
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