Northampton General Lunatic Asylum 1849
A new building is going to be built on the grounds of the asylum.
St Andrew’s, the UK’s leading charity providing specialist NHS care, has received planning approval to construct a new residential building for young people with mental illness, autism and learning difficulties in Northampton.
It is depressing to read the following:
(The) ... new building on Cliftonville Road will bring together adolescent services at St Andrew’s on one site and will be the largest facility of its kind in Europe. It will provide care to young people from across the United Kingdom, and alongside 110 residential beds, it will include a school, sports and therapy areas, and a number of activity and landscaped courtyards.
http://www.stah.org/about-us/latest-news/entryid/224/charity-to-build-europe-s-largest-mental-health-facility-for-young-people-in-northampton.aspx
Providing care to young people from across the UK means that vulnerable young people are going to be removed from their families and communities. The Mental Health Acts and Incapacity Acts make that easy to achieve. As well as that, charities have incentive to keep young people within their institutions because they are able to charge thousands of pounds per week to the NHS for each individual`s care. In addition, chief executives draw huge salaries when the business thrives.
Reporting about St Andrews Healthcare in October 2013, Stephen Cook stated: "They behave like big businesses, although they don't have shareholders and pay dividends..."
News of the latest pay rise for the chief executive of St Andrew's Healthcare, a charity, brings an extra dimension to the controversy about senior pay in the sector. His 18 per cent increase of £101,000 brought his salary to £653,000 "
What about the quality of care itself?
Awards include 2011 Third Sector Provider of the Year and 2012 Mental Health Provider of the Year. ..
In December 2013 the hospital was inspected by the Care Quality Commission who found it was so short staffed at its unit for under-18s that patients sometimes had to restrain each other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew's_Hospital
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