Marlowe Ward is a 12 bed service that delivers high-quality care within a community atmosphere, while focusing on discharge planning from the moment service users arrive. Individuals often come to us following multiple placement breakdowns, failed treatment programmes or they may be stepping down from secure settings. Our aim is to understand, stabilise and break the traumatic cycles of relapse that can impact an individual’s life.

Milligan House is an eight bed service that is an annexe to the main building, containing six pre-discharge beds with an additional two self-contained flatlets. Milligan House allows Marlowe Ward to provide a care pathway for service users as they reach a level of increased stability.

This step-down service gives individuals the opportunity to build their skills prior to discharge, while still having the full support of the multi-disciplinary team. The service may be particularly successful for individuals who have been in services for a long period of time as Milligan House offers an opportunity for slower stream rehabilitation back into the community.

Service users have access to a range of therapies and opportunities and care plans are individualised. The local community is an essential step along the pathway to independence, for both leisure pursuits and for social training such as shopping and using public transport. External activities are tailored to individual needs and wishes.

Our service user profile:

• Men aged 18+
• Detained under the Mental Health Act (1983) or informal
• Primary diagnosis of mental illness with:
  • Complex comorbidities
  • Substance, drug and alcohol abuse
  • Treatment resistance
  • Behaviours that challenge
• Aiming for a return to community or community-based care
• History of sexual abuse or domestic violence
• Typical diagnoses: schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar affective disorder or depression
• May have secondary diagnoses of mild learning disability, autism spectrum disorder or personality disorder
• May have a forensic history and/or be stepping down from secure services
• May have a history of repeated acute admissions

Our facilities:

• En-suite bedrooms
• 2 self-contained flatlets
• Therapy kitchen
• Variety of activity areas
• Dining room
• Living room
• Enclosed garden
• Gym
• Multi-faith room