Address
Regional Secure Unit
St Bernard’s Hospital
Uxbridge Road
Southall
UB1 3EU 

Telephone
020 8354 8354 (switchboard)

Service summary

West London Forensic service provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary assessment, treatment and rehabilitation service for male and female mentally disordered offenders, as well as those with challenging behaviour and specialist rehabilitation needs, for north west London, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.

The service provides adult inpatient beds on the St Bernard’s site at Ealing. There are a range of inpatient facilities, including:

• Admission and assessment wards.
• A high dependency unit.
• A slow stream rehabilitation unit for men with challenging behaviour. 

There are a number of rehabilitation wards at both low and medium security, as well as a unit specialising in treatment resistant psychosis. The service provides short-term follow up in the community for most patients prior to transfer to local mental health services.

Services are organised and managed separately for men and women. An enhanced women’s medium secure unit (the Orchard) operates on the Ealing site.

Referral information

Referral routes for medium secure facilities include prisons, the courts, and special hospitals, whilst the low secure part of the service also takes patients from local mental health services and psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs).