Teachers from London’s Marylebone School, which is highly rated by Ofsted, cover key areas of the National Curriculum including English, Maths, Drama and Health and Social Care enabling young patients to benefit from a wider and higher level of teaching than is offered by other mental health hospitals.
Elizabeth Phillips, headmistress of Marylebone School comments on the partnership with Capio Nightingale:
“We are very proud of our relationship with Capio Nightingale and we have been delighted by the way that the young patients at the hospital have responded to our teachers. Many mental health treatment providers have a restricted educational facility – whereas Capio Nightingale has recognised the importance of ensuring that each individual’s learning is maintained during their time at the hospital.”
Further to this, the hospital has undergone an extensive renovation which offers an inviting and contemporary environment where patients feel comfortable and relaxed, and these facilities represent the best of their kind in the UK.
Professor Hubert Lacey, Lead Consultant Eating Disorders at Capio Nightingale, comments on the new enhanced offering at The Grove:
“The enhanced adolescent offering demonstrates Capio Nightingale’s commitment to providing the highest quality of inpatient care for young people dealing with a serious mental health crisis. We appraise and review our services continuously to ensure that we are always at the forefront of mental health treatment practice. Through the newly renovated facility, our improved education links and enhanced therapeutic programme we are able to offer greater opportunities for helping young people with eating disorders and other mental health issues.”
With patients’ wellbeing always at the forefront of the hospital’s actions, Capio Nightingale has recently developed a unique and exciting pioneering partnership with a neighbouring school to develop its education programme. The school, which comes highly rated by Ofsted, will enable young patients to benefit from a wider and higher level of teaching than is available in other mental health hospitals.
Capio Nightingale launches new Adolescent Eating Disorders service
Jun 2008
Capio Nightingale announces the launch of its new enhanced adolescent eating disorders service.
Capio Nightingale Hospital has a specialist multi-disciplinary adolescent division dedicated to providing high quality, flexible and accessible inpatient care for young people dealing with an eating disorder.
The new enhanced adolescent eating disorder provision has been developed in response to an increase in cases of adolescent eating disorder issues.
Dr Pippa Hugo, Adolescent Eating Disorders Consultant Psychiatrist at Capio Nightingale comments on the worrying increase in adolescents developing eating disorders:
“Mid-teenage years are widely acknowledged as the age when eating disorders are likely to manifest themselves with young people aged 14-25 most at risk. It is vitally important that we guide sufferers and their families through the illness on to a path of healing as often their recovery is hampered by misunderstanding and secretiveness.”
It is hard to estimate the extent of the incidence of eating disorders in adolescence, partly because research is hampered by the reluctance of some of those affected to admit to the problem. In a recent report published by Time to Tell 45% of young people felt that they couldn’t talk to anyone about their eating disorder.
However, bulimia is estimated to affect between one and two per cent of women aged 15 to 40. Anorexia is estimated to affect between one and five teenage women in every 100,000, and the age at which most cases develop is 16 to 17. For boys who develop the problem (about five to ten per cent of all cases), 12 is the peak age.
The enhanced facility will ensure that the hospital can maximise the breadth of offering to adolescent patients. With a fully-equipped gymnasium, computer suites and relaxation areas, adolescents can enjoy other therapeutic activities alongside their more general, traditional treatment programme. This holistic approach to patient care ensures that each individual’s needs are met by their own tailored course of treatment.
And to ensure that patients’ personal development is maximised, Capio Nightingale has formed a partnership with a leading local school to provide academic support for its adolescent inpatients, the first mental health treatment provider to embark upon such an initiative.