- Independent mental health service
Ellern Mede Barnet
Report from 18 November 2024 assessment
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Ratings - Specialist eating disorder services
Our view of the service
Date of assessment: 26 March 2024 to 10 July 2024 Ellern Mede Barnet provides eating disorder inpatient services for young people and adults aged 16 – 24 years. This hospital is for young people and adults of all genders. At the time of our assessment the patients were all female. The hospital has 2 wards and an annex. We undertook a site visit on 26 and 27 March 2024 and carried out further offsite activities. We last inspected this service in November 2022. The service was rated requires improvement in safe, effective, caring and well-led. We rated responsive as good. At that inspection we rated the hospital as requires improvement overall. We required the provider to make improvements to staffing, medicines management, patient observations, post rapid tranquilisation monitoring, implementation of the therapeutic model and governance arrangements. At this assessment we found improvements in all these areas. Our rating of this service improved. We rated it as good. We inspected 31 quality statements across the safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led key questions and have combined the scores for these areas with scores from the last inspection to give the rating.