Mental Health Services for Adults in Dorset
Blandford
Blandford Community Mental Health Team (CMHT)
The unit is based at:
Blandford Community Hospital
Milldown Unit
Milldown Road
Blandford Forum
Dorset
DT11 7DD
Telephone: 01258 450610
Respite House
Respite House provides short-term supported accommodation for people in the local area with mental health problems who are in need of some respite. People are recommended a stay at the House through the Blandford Community Mental Health Team.
Bridport
Bridport Community Mental Health Team (CMHT)
The unit is based at:
Bridport Community Hospital
Hospital Lane
North Allington
Bridport
Dorset DT6 5DR
Telephone: 01308 426281
The Hughes Unit - In-patient (CMHU)
The unit is based at:
The Hughes Unit
Bridport Community Hospital
Hospital Lane
North Allington
Bridport
Dorset DT6 5DR
Telephone: 01308 426282
Dorchester
20 Cornwall Road - Community Mental Health Unit (CMHU)
20 Cornwall Road is a seven-bedded unit in the centre of Dorchester. It aims to provide a safe, therapeutic environment for people experiencing mental health problems and needs.
The unit is based at:
20 Cornwall Road
Dorchester
DT1 1RU
Telephone: 01305 264048
Dorset Wide Services
- Psychiatric Rehabilitation Continuing Care Unit
- Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Forston Clinic
- Whitfield Rural Activity Centre
- Therapeutic Day Centre (Conifers)
- Inpatient Unit - Waterloo Lodge
- Therapeutic Day Unit - Getty Gardens
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Continuing Care Unit
Glendenning Avenue is the NHS Dorset's central nine-bedded mental health rehabilitation unit. Service users will normally have a history of severe mental illness and often, despite extensive community interventions, are experiencing repeated relapses and acute admissions.
The unit is based at:
No 26 Glendenning Avenue
Weymouth
DT4 7QF
Telephone: 01305 778465
Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) - Minterne Ward Forston Clinic
Minterne Ward is the psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) for the NHS Dorset. It is an established practice development unit of three years' standing.
The unit has 16 beds, 14 of which are individual rooms. It has been purposely refurbished to meet all the standards set out in Department of Health environmental guidelines and low secure services and benefits from a female only area.
The unit is based at:
Forston Clinic
Charminster
Dorchester
Dorset DT2 9TB
Tel: 01305 361269
For further information about services provided and opening times please refer to the leaflets below:
- A guide for patients, carers and relatives
- A guide for referrers and carers of patients
- Forston Clinic OT information leaflet
For patients of the above ward, there is an occupational therapy department. Staff offer many opportunities to use or develop practical, physical skills and coping skills in a variety of activities and therapies.
Whitfield Rural Activity Centre
The centre has 20 places a day for people with serious mental health problems. Service users are referred through their care co-ordinator and are on the integrated care programme approach system.
This thriving centre, on the outskirts of Dorchester, is on a purpose-built site and provides structural activities for people with a range of mental health problems. The centre provides a relaxed environment in which people are encouraged to regain their self-confidence, esteem and sense of purpose.
The centre offers a wide range of skills to learn. These include horticulture, animal husbandry, practical wood-working and metalwork. Other creative activities include spinning, hand and machine knitting (using wool from the Whitfield sheep), pottery and other arts and crafts.
The unit is based at:
Whitfield Rural Activities Centre
Poundbury Road
Dorchester
DT2 1SF
Telephone: 01305 250863
Conifers Therapeutic Day Centre
The centre has 12-15 places a day for people with serious mental health problems. Service users are referred through their care co-ordinator and are on the integrated care programme approach system.
The aim of the service is to provide short to medium term intervention for adults to assist their recovery process. This leads on to the care planning for future social, vocational/educational and other occupational needs, involving other appropriate agencies, to obtain a measurable posiitive change in service users who attend the unit.
The day centre is based at:
Conifers
Poundbury West Industrial Estate
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 2PG
Telephone: 01305 367000
Fax: 01305 367001
Waterloo Lodge
Waterloo Lodge is a seven bed facility for adult men and women from the North Dorset area (Shaftesbury, Gillingham, Sturminster Newton, Blandford Forum, Sherborne and the surrounding villages). The unit offers treatment for people with short-term mental health problems and during drug and alcohol detoxification.
The unit is based at:
Shaftesbury Road
Gillingham
Shaftesbury
Dorset SP7 9TT
Telephone: 01747 824949
Fax: 01747 821492
For further information about services provided and opening times please refer to the leaflet below:
Waterloo Lodge information leaflet
Getty Gardens
Getty Gardens is a therapeutic day unit serving the North Dorset area (Shaftesbury, Gillingham, Sturminster Newton, Blandford Forum, Sherborne and the surrounding villages).
The unit works in close collaboration with Waterloo Lodge to prevent unnecessary admissions and to enable effective discharge from the inpatient unit.
There are also close links with community-based resources to enable individuals to access social, leisure and employment related facilities. The United Response vocational worker provides help with further education, training and employment.
The unit is based at:
Getty Gardens
Shaftesbury Road
Gillingham
Shaftesbury
Dorset SP7 9TT
Telephone: 01747 823035
Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury Community Mental Health Team (CMHT)
The CMHT is based at:
Abbey View Medical Centre
Salisbury Road
Shaftesbury
Dorset
SP7 8HD
Telephone: 01747 856711
Fax: 01747 856712
Sherborne
Sherborne Community Mental Health Team (CMHT)
The CMHT is based at:
Ashley Elm House
Back Land
Sherborne
Dorset
DT9 3JE
Telephone: 01935 816552
Fax: 01935 815609
Weymouth
- Weymouth and Portland Community Mental Health Team (CMHT)
- Assertive Outreach Team
- Continuing Care Assessment to Treatment (CCATT)
- Duty Assessment and Response Team
- Linden Community Support Unit
- Linden Occupational Therapy
- Shirecroft House (linked to the Linden Unit)
Weymouth and Portland Community Mental Health Team (CMHT)
The CMHT is based at:
Radipole Lane
Weymouth
Dorset
DT4 0QE
Telephone: 01305 362060
- Day Services / Opportunities in the Weymouth & Portland Locality information leaflet
- Community Mental Health Services information leaflet
Assertive Outreach Team
The team provide a service for those deemed difficult to engage within the adult mental health services. It works alongside an assessment service, a continuing care and treatment service and Clozaril team for the statutory services. The team is based within the Weymouth and Portland Community Health Team (CMHT).
Continuing Care Assessment to Treatment (CCATT)
Provide a comprehensive range of evidence-based treatment, medication, care and support to people experiencing psychiatric disorder, and their carers in the Weymouth and Portland locality, who require longer term intervention than that available from Duty Assessment and Response Team. The team is based within the Weymouth and Portland Community Health Team (CMHT).
Duty Assessment and Response Team (DART)
DART is a multidisciplinary sub-team within the Weymouth and Portland Community Health Team (CMHT).
One of the roles of DART is to monitor and account for all referrals coming into the service. All referrals are logged in by DART and either passed towards the appropriate specialist service eg medics, psychology or arrange an initial assessment themselves.
Linden Community Support Unit
Linden is a community mental health unit, providing hospital care for people with various forms of mental health problems. It is a short-stay unit for people of all ages, who suffer with functional disorders or addictions. There are sixteen beds on the unit, all of which are in single rooms.
The unit is based at:
Linden Unit
423 Radipole Lane
Weymouth
Dorset
DT4 0QE
Telephone: 01305 787274
Occupational Therapy
The occupational therapists (OT) at Linden aim to work with patients, their nurses and doctors to form a complete treatment plan while the patient is in hospital. A wide range of groups and activities is designed to help you with your particular difficulties.
For further information about services provided and opening times please refer to the leaflet below:
Shirecroft House (linked to the Linden Unit)
This is a three-bedded respite house which provides short-term support to service users who do not need full-time nursing support
The new NHS Dorset came into being on 1 October 2006. The Trust was formed by the merger of North Dorset Primary Care Trust, South West Dorset Primary Care Trust and South and East Dorset Primary Care Trust.
If you need to contact services provided by one of the former primary care trusts, please use the existing telephone numbers in the relevant leaflets.