Combined Healthcare’s Children’s Mental Health Centre Opens Specialist Treatment Area
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust’s Darwin Centre, an inpatient mental health service for children and young people, based in Stoke-on-Trent, has opened its doors to a new multifunctional enhanced support suite – the first of its kind in the UK.
Its aim is that the ‘Peace Pod’ will help the Darwin Centre to avoid admissions to a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) or specialist eating disorder unit (SEDU), reduce the length of stay for patients with complex needs through timely therapeutic interventions tailored to the individual, and meet the multi-faceted requirements of patients with complex or dynamic needs.