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Delivering Outstanding Forensic Mental Health Services

8^th July 2010 International Coffee Organisation Conference Centre

Personality Disorder and Forensic Services: New Ways of Working and Emerging Practices

 29^th June 2010 at the IEE, Austin Court, Birmingham B1

The Ansel Group is exhibiting and holding a seminar at the ‘Personality Disorder and Forensic Services: New ways of working and emerging practices’ Conference on the 29^th June in Birmingham.

Ansel in Line for Major Design Award

The Ansel Group – the new name in mental health – has had its flagship clinic in Nottingham short listed for one of the prestigious Pinder Healthcare Design Awards.

The Pinder’s Healthcare Design Awards recognise the achievements of designers, developers and operators of care establishments of all types. They are awarded to development projects that not only have high standards of architecture and innovation but which also incorporate the needs and desires of the residents into their design.

The Ansel Clinic Nottingham is modern, stylish, designed to be highly flexible whilst responding to its context and responding to the needs of its patients. Achieving this balance is one of the outstanding features of the clinic.

The clinic is one of only three selected in the Specialist Care category and will be visited by one of the judges shortly so that a final decision can be made.

The clinic will receive a framed certificate and cheque for £500, to be donated to a charity of their choice, simply for becoming a finalist.

Announcement: The Ansel Group were announced runners up in the Specialist Care category at the Awards luncheon at Lords Cricket Ground on the 25th March.
 

Innovative Mental Health Clinic Opens in Nottingham

The Ansel Group, the new name in the provision of integrated pathway services for people with mental disorders, is delighted to announce that their purpose designed and built Nottingham clinic will open on 1st March 2010.

An investment of over £3 million has enabled the group to create a facility that is designed to the latest guidance and entirely focused on meeting the needs of the clinic’s 24 patients and their professional support staff.

The site at Clifton, just south of the city, will provide assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for men with personality disorders and complex needs in conditions of low security and in doing so will create at least 70 new jobs along with the opportunity to deliver in excess of £3 million per annum to the local economy.

All of the clinic’s staff will be trained through the Knowledge and Understanding Framework in addition to receiving in house bespoke social therapy training. 

Ansel is also in the process of developing academic partner relationships to deliver independent research, evaluation and outcome studies in respect of the social therapy programme underpinning Ansel’s service pathway proposals.

Ansel proposes a dynamic therapeutic environment and are already in advanced discussions with partner organisations to deliver integrated down stream pathway opportunities for its patients.

“We have long known that patients respond positively to treatment in modern, well designed facilities,” said Tom Burns, Chief Executive of the Ansel Group. “Well trained, supported and motivated professional staff and a clarity of purpose in patient care and treatment makes all the difference.”

“Unfortunately the needs of people with a personality disorder, particularly those with co-morbidity and/ or complex needs, remain largely unmet. This is the challenge that the Ansel Group is addressing head on.”