St Andrew's Healthcare

St Andrew's Healthcare is a charitable organisation providing psychiatric services in England. Its headquarters is at St Andrew's Hospital in Northampton. The charity dates back to before the hospital opened in 1838. It is by far the largest mental health facility in UK, providing national specialist services for adolescents, men, women and older people with mental illness, learning disability, brain injury, autism and dementia. The charity caters for patients requiring open, locked, low or medium-secure accommodation and has a primary focus on rehabilitation pathways and recovery. St Andrew's also has hospitals in Essex, Birmingham and Nottinghamshire.

As of 2013, St Andrew's Healthcare employs over 4,000 people across the United Kingdom and receives over 95% of its revenue (and patients) from the National Health Service through referrals from NHS commissioners. St Andrew's has the capacity to cater for around 1,000 patients across its various sites, having grown rapidly since 2000. Its charitable accounts show turnover of £187.5million in 2013/14. Awards include 2011 Third Sector Provider of the Year and 2012 Mental Health Provider of the Year. Professor Philip Sugarman, the then Chief Executive was paid £653,000 in 2012/13, an increase of more than 18 per cent on his previous year's pay of £552,000. In February 2014 Prof. Sugarman brought forward his planned retirement for health reasons.

In December 2013 the hospital was inspected by the Care Quality Commission who will be re-inspecting during 2016. Dr Philip Sugarman the Chief Executive said there was a national shortage of qualified staff. A later inspection of the facility by CQC inspectors in August 2014 found that staffing levels were acceptable.

The Northampton General Lunatic Asylum, founded by public subscription, opened to "private and pauper lunatics" on 1 August 1838. The hospital was built on land once owned by the Cluniac Priory of St Andrew's. Donations were given for the establishment of a building for the "care of the insane" including from the funds of the disbanded Northamptonshire Yeomanry and a gift from Earl Spencer.

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