Cygnet Hospital Kewstoke

The hospital is set in 16 acres of landscaped grounds overlooking the Bristol Channel, we provide a tranquil and therapeutic environment offering service users a broad range of therapies to include, CAT, CBT & DBT.

Services at Kewstoke

• Knightstone Ward & Milton Ward - Female Low Secure Services, supported by DBT, CAT and CBT interventions with an additional drug and alcohol service.
• Nash Ward - Male Psychiatric Intensive Care, accepting emergency crisis admissions.
• Redhill Ward - Male Complex Recovery for adults with a forensic associated mental illness.
• The Lodge - Male Locked Rehabilitation, offering continued support pre-discharge for those who no longer need a secure setting.
• Prison Transfer Assessment Service, to assist in sentence planning and mental health options for offenders.

Facilities & Care

The hospital provides 57 inpatient beds within a low secure setting, including a male PICU within the same secure perimeter. All bedrooms are single, with en-suite bathrooms, and each of the four wards has its own garden or terrace. There is a fully equipped gym and activities suite.

Care Pathways

On the same site at the hospital is The Lodge, an intensive community rehabilitation service for men, which provides care for informal individuals as well as those who may be formally detained. The Lodge is separate from the main low secure service, and provides the next step in the care pathway from the low secure wards, or a step up from community placements which may have broken down.

Our new female transitional service, based on Knightstone Ward, is aimed at those women who are already engaged in treatment, and actively working towards moving out of secure services to supported or independent living in the future. The new service means that Cygnet Hospital Kewstoke can offer a comprehensive, recovery-focused, rehabilitation care pathway exclusively for female service users.
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Therapies

Our multi-disciplinary team works across the whole hospital and makes use of a broad range of therapies, including CAT, CBT and DBT that are tailored to individual needs. We run a number of groups, such as a 'Hearing Voices Group', which many of our service users find useful as a way to share their experience.
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We also offer a comprehensive programme for those individuals who, as well as having a major mental illness, have abused drug and or alcohol. This programme is integrated into the therapeutic programme across the hospital, including The Lodge and the PICU, and is accessible to all service users.
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Service Users

Our aim at Kewstoke is to help people learn how to manage their mental health and reinforce their daily living skill, to prepare for independent life back in the community, or for moving into mainstream rehabilitation. We actively involve our services users in improving the services that we offer and encourage them and the hospital to be part of the local community.
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