Katie Fisher: ‘I’m not trying to blame anyone for our mental health failings’ The head of St Andrew’s, the biggest independent provider of NHS mental healthcare, on her plans to downsize and hand over services
Few bosses would nurture an ambition to shrink their operations by half. But Katie Fisher admits this is her vision for St Andrew’s Healthcare, the UK’s biggest independent charitable provider of NHS mental healthcare, and she intends to make a start this year by closing at least 100 of its 860 beds.
St Andrew’s, founded in 1838, has been under sustained fire over the quality of its services, most recently last week when the Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectorate identified “repeated and systemic failings” in procedures and governance. The charity’s specialist provision for adolescents has been in special measures since last spring, and remains closed to new admissions, and the organisation has faced outrage over the treatment of an 18-year-old, known as Bethany, whose father claimed she was kept in seclusion at St Andrew’s for two years and fed through a hatch. The Guardian
Few bosses would nurture an ambition to shrink their operations by half. But Katie Fisher admits this is her vision for St Andrew’s Healthcare, the UK’s biggest independent charitable provider of NHS mental healthcare, and she intends to make a start this year by closing at least 100 of its 860 beds.
St Andrew’s, founded in 1838, has been under sustained fire over the quality of its services, most recently last week when the Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectorate identified “repeated and systemic failings” in procedures and governance. The charity’s specialist provision for adolescents has been in special measures since last spring, and remains closed to new admissions, and the organisation has faced outrage over the treatment of an 18-year-old, known as Bethany, whose father claimed she was kept in seclusion at St Andrew’s for two years and fed through a hatch. The Guardian
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