About Ansel

Ansel was established in 2008 by a group of dedicated clinicians and professionals all with significant experience of designing, commissioning and delivering a wide range of mental healthcare services across the public, private and not-for-profit healthcare sectors. The driving force to establishing Ansel was to design and deliver bespoke services that meet the very specific needs of people with a personality disorder and complex needs – a significant proportion of the population currently heavily marginalised in their ability to access appropriate and facilitative healthcare provision.

Our objective is to deliver an integrated pathway of bespoke services dedicated to the effective assessment and treatment of their needs.

Ansel will be the first independent, dedicated provider of services to individuals with a personality disorder who may have additional complex needs. Building on our core emphasis on patient care our clinics will also offer a range of learning and professional development opportunities to our staff as well as engaging in research and development activity. Our clinics will be bespoke, dynamic and outcome focused. Our services will be high quality but affordable and charged at a single price point with no hidden extras.

Chief Executive Tom Burns noted: “It is our intention to put together a team of highly skilled, highly motivated mental health professionals who will provide the very best in dedicated healthcare provision for people with complex needs and personality disorders. We will offer the best service to clients that refer to us and to the people that are in need of our services."

The wide ranging experience of the Ansel team has equipped us to effectively respond to the evolving expectations of central government and the NHS commissioners.

These expectations include transparency, integrity, accountability and a very high level of clinical competence when dealing with individuals with complex needs and personality disorders. Our patients will have real opportunities to influence the way our services operate and Ansel will create a ‘therapeutic alliance’ that will help develop and regulate the services going forward – to ensure they remain relevant, are delivered appropriately and that they continue to make a real difference.

Our first purpose designed and built in-patient clinic will open in Nottingham early in 2010, followed by a second in 2011. Additional provision across an integrated pathway is planned to enable delivery of a national ‘community of communities’.