Holybourne Hospital
Acute mental health service for adults in London
Holybourne Hospital is an acute mental health hospital for adults of all genders with severe and complex mental health conditions. Based in Roehampton, London, we provide high quality intensive treatment in a clinically safe, caring, and secure environment for up to 41 patients across four specialist wards.
Capacity up to 41
Mental health
All genders
London
A mental health service providing treatment in a caring, secure environment.
We accept both detained and informal patients, and we can support those who require drug and alcohol detoxification or patients who are under a revoked community treatment order (CTO).
Our well-established clinical team at Holybourne Hospital is led by our hospital director, medical director, head of therapies and hospital matron. Patients are further supported by an additional three consultant psychiatrists.
Our senior clinical team have support from an extensive team. Support includes clinical psychology, nursing, support staff, occupational therapists, art psychotherapists, activity co-ordinators, administrators, housekeeping, catering and maintenance staff.
We have an art therapy room and a therapy suite, kitchen, a gym and an enclosed sports area, a multi-faith room, communal lounges, three secure garden areas and on-site parking. We also have a service user expert by experience who works with us on a weekly basis supporting patients in the service and involving them in service reviews and development.
Our wards:
- Barnes Ward — male acute — 9 beds
- Kingston Ward — female acute — 9 beds
- Richmond Ward — male acute — 10 beds
- Osman Ward — female acute — 13 beds
With intensive support from our multi-disciplinary team (MDT), patients may work through mental health challenges and co-design their recovery pathway with an innovative patient-led model that looks at trust, relationships, mutual acceptance, learning and discovery, hopefulness, empowerment, and direction, and meaning.
At Holybourne Hospital, we welcome patients to our acute wards from a number of settings (the community, A&E, other acute wards and from Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICU).
Conditions we support, but are not limited to:
- unexplained psychotic episodes
- drug-induced psychosis
- severe depression
- challenging behaviours
- axis 1 type disorder such as mania or schizophrenia
- personality disorder
- secondary diagnosis of borderline intellectual functioning
- acute episodes requiring intensive care
41 bedrooms
Holybourne Hospital is one of the largest specialist facility in the UK dedicated entirely to mental health.
Gym and enclosed sports area
We have an enclosed sports and gym area allowing patients to keep fit, socialise and enjoy recreational activities.
Designated art room
We have a designated art room which is open to all our patients allowing them to express and explore their creative sides.
Kitchen/dining area
Holybourne Hospital has a large kitchen and ward-based dining area for communal eating where everyone is encouraged to convene.
Large garden
We have a large secure garden where patients are encouraged to engage in recreational activities and cultivate plant life, whilst learning new skills in the process.
Therapy suite
Our therapy suite is open to all, allowing for patients to talk through their thoughts and feelings openly with staff members.
Watch this video about what makes Holybourne Hospital so special.
Holybourne Hospital is raising standards and improving outcomes
Holybourne Hospital works in partnership with Real Insight, an external consultancy led by service user consultants, to positively impact the structure of services to ensure we deliver excellent standards of care whilst creating a supportive environment for our staff.
Real Insight conduct audits from a service user perspective on topics including communication, patient experiences, staff and patient relations, and safety. Through their work they have developed a model that looks at trust, relationships, mutual acceptance, learning and discovery, hopefulness, empowerment and direction, and meaning.
This innovative service user-led approach means service user involvement has become an integral part of our service design and delivery helping us to develop a pioneering service. Staff and service users alike at Holybourne Hospital are empowered to take meaningful and effective roles in co-designing their own solutions and services to meet their needs.
Experts by experience achievements so far:
- Implemented a five-step rolling process for continuous auditing and assessment of the service.
- Patients feel proactively involved in their care.
- Introduced a welcome pack for patients, created by patients.
- Consulted patients on their understanding and experience of the use of force and restrictive practices.
- Staff feel their suggestions are valued and recognised.
- Developed a tailored induction for new starters to highlight our service user-led approach.
- Finalist in the LaingBuisson Awards 2022.
Meet the team
Matt Beavis
Matt Beavis
Matt is a proud registered mental health nurse, and came into the health profession given his experiences growing up with his brother with learning disabilities, and wanting to make a difference to people’s lives. After starting as a healthcare assistant, Matt completed his nursing training, where he developed a keen interest in people and mental health. He trained at King’s College London and started his nursing career with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust on their specialist national self-harm ward.
Having moved into a community nursing role within substance misuse services, Matt subsequently led the service and, after a few years, became the trust’s lead nurse for addictions and then lead nurse for all trust specialist services. Matt became Assistant Director of Nursing/Trust Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children. While in this role, he completed a master’s degree in public administration at London South Bank University, presenting his resulting research nationally and internationally, and utilised the learning to develop trust safeguarding children and adult arrangements and governance before moving into the role of Deputy Director of Children and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS).
Following this, Matt worked in a consultancy capacity across senior nursing, safeguarding, and improving roles for a range of providers, commissioners, and a local authority before becoming the Director of Nursing at the Priory Hospital, Roehampton. He then led a local authority’s COVID Testing services and was an Assistant Director of Children Commissioning before securing his current Hospital Director role at Holybourne Hospital, where he has focused on improving the patient and staff experience, coproduction, and involvement to attempt to provide the safest and highest quality service for our patients.
Ashleigh Gonsalves
Ashleigh Gonsalves
Ashleigh studied occupational therapy at Canterbury Christ Church University. Over the last 13 years, Ashleigh has worked for the NHS, local authorities, and private care settings, ranging from community, rehabilitation, psychiatric intensive care and acute mental health services.
Ashleigh joined Holybourne Hospital in 2017 as the lead occupational therapist, and has gone onto become the head of therapies and a member of the senior management team. Ashleigh is passionate about reducing restrictive practices in mental health services.
Ashleigh has always had a passion for mental health.
Dr Kunal Karn Choudhary
Dr Kunal Karn Choudhary
Dr Choudhary has held substantive consultant positions in the NHS and independent sector over the years, having worked in medium secure forensic services, acute care and complex care/high dependency rehabilitation.
Dr Choudhary completed his psychiatric training on the St Mary’s scheme, London, while also holding an honorary clinical lecturer position at Imperial College London. Dr Choudhary is on the General Medical Council’s Specialist Register with dual accreditation in general adult and substance misuse/addiction psychiatry. He also holds an MBA in healthcare management.
In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Dr Choudhary has also overseen operational management projects, including the incorporation of telemedicine services, and e-prescriptions. He is passionate about medical education, technology in medicine, quality improvement across service delivery, and the involvement of individuals and their family in day-to-day care and recovery planning.
Andy Acquaye
Andy Acquaye
Andy’s nursing career has seen him progress through a variety of NHS and independent services for more than three decades. He has been instrumental in the development of safe practice in mental health care units and has commissioned specialist inpatient and community care focused forensic establishments in Essex and West London. Andy continues to drive progress in healthcare sector by ensuring quality improvement standards are upheld, and by collaborating on student placements, training, and development opportunities with top-100 UK universities.
Following 24 years of dedicated service with the NHS, Andy joined the independent sector as Service Director/Director of Nursing with Partnerships in Care in 2014. Before joining Active Care Group, Andy was Deputy Hospital Director/Hospital Matron in Roehampton for almost a decade.
Andy qualified as a registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) (1993 — Anglia Raskin University), and in Forensic Mental Health (1997 — King’s College, School of Medicine and Dentistry), and he completed the Nye Bevan NHS Leadership Programme (2015 — NHS Leadership Academy).
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Commitment to quality
At Holybourne Hospital we have aligned and agreed our strategic goals to define what we want our organisation to achieve. This means we have also aligned them with the five domains of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection standards to ensure we provide the very best care possible to all our residents.
Our address
Holybourne Avenue, Roehampton, London, SW15 4JD
Contact number
Tel: 020 8780 6155
Referrals
Email: acg.referrals@nhs.net or
Call: 0330 660 5555