Psychiatric Intensive Care (PICU)

Following admission , we work with the service user and referring team to develop the best plan of care and treatment to enable transition to a more suitable setting.

We can offer a higher level of support and supervision than on acute inpatient wards - by creating intensive treatment packages in a safe, therapeutic, low stimulus setting.

We accept service users who are:

• 18 or over
• detained under an appropriate Section of the Mental Health Act / Order (we don't admit service users on Section 4, 5/2, 5/4 or 136)
• experiencing difficulties which affect their wellbeing, or that of others, and which can't be assessed or treated safely in an open acute inpatient facility
• at risk of aggression, absconding, suicide or vulnerability (for example, because they are sexually uninhibited or overactive) - because of a serious mental disorder (personality disordered service users will not be excluded from this service)

Our aim is a short, rapid intervention to help people regain a sense of control and order in their lives, so they can move to a less restrictive care setting and return home. Accommodation is provided in en-suite rooms on single sex wards.

For service users who exhibit longer term challenging behaviour we have developed our Challenging Behaviour locked service at Cygnet Hospital Stevenage, where longer term treatment is undertaken to address substance misuse and personality disorders to enable service users who may have a long history of PICU admissions to be treated.

Locations

We provide Psychiatric Intensive Care services at the following Cygnet Health hospitals:

• Cygnet Hospital Beckton, London - 15 beds (Female)
• Cygnet Hospital Bierley, West Yorkshire - 15 beds (Female)
• Cygnet Hospital Blackheath, London - 15 beds (Male)
• Cygnet Hospital Kewstoke, Somerset - 15 beds (Male)
• Cygnet Hospital Wyke, West Yorkshire - 15 beds (Male)

View our current emergency PICU bed availablilty.