The Royal College of Psychiatrists says the service provided at NHS Cotswold House Marlborough, an eating disorder unit based at Savernake Hospital, is ‘excellent’.
The specialist unit caters for up to twelve inpatients and four day patients. It treats patients from Wiltshire, Swindon, across England and the south of Wales, the majority of whom suffer from severe anorexia nervosa.
In 2012, Cotswold House Marlborough started to use a new national quality assurance programme run by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The visiting independent review team judged the unit against more than four hundred standards and awarded it the highest level of accreditation.
Cotswold House Marlborough is one of two specialist inpatient units run by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
The unit provides a daily programme of supported eating, group therapy, individual therapy, and occupational therapy with plenty of one-on-one support, delivered by a dedicated multidisciplinary team. Staff look after patients who are physically frail as well as those who are further on towards recovery and need rehabilitation.
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