About Cygnet Health

As one of Britain’s leading independent providers of psychiatric care, the nature of our business means offering a personalized service to patients with psychological, emotional and addiction problems. We believe our experience in the provision of psychiatric services is unrivalled.

Since Cygnet was founded in 1988, we have built a business based on providing care-with care.

Cygnet is the largest outsourcing provider to the NHS of acute and intensive care psychiatry.
Cygnet is Britain’s largest provider of heroin detoxification services.
Cygnet’s nationwide network of clinics makes it Britain’s second largest independent provider of acute psychiatric services.

Today, Cygnet operates 17 centres with more than 730 beds. Thirteen clinics care for acutely ill psychiatric patients suffering from a broad range of psychological and emotional disorders. Two units are registered nursing homes providing long term and respite care for private fee-paying elderly residents. We provide autism outreach and short stay residential care in the North West and South West of England as well as a longer term residential care home in Kent for people with autism and asperger's syndrome. We also run Detox 5, an opiate detoxification centre in Harrogate.

Company policy emphasizes strong local clinical and administrative management. Each clinic has its own local management board comprising the hospital’s most senior manager, the medical director, two executive directors from a main board, and a staff representative. Our corporate structure is deliberately low-key - a factor that also helps maintain the personal nature of Cygnet’s patient services.


Nursing Times Top 100 Employer in 2006 & 2007	Winner of Nursing Practice Award 2008	Winner of Outstanding Achievement Award 2008

Health Service Journal and Nursing Times Top 100
Healthcare Employer in 2008