Mental Health Services Admissions Criteria

Mental health services can be provided in gender specific units for males and females from the age of 18 who meet the following criteria:

• Adults with severe and enduring mental illness requiring a low secure environment for treatment and rehabilitation
• Male and female mentally disordered offenders requiring a low secure environment and ongoing treatment and rehabilitation
• Adults moving from medium secure services to low secure environments requiring continuing treatment
• Women with personality disorder requiring specialist services including DBT
• Men with mental illness and degenerative neurological conditions or complex physical health needs
• Elderly adults over the age of 65 with dementia, challenging behaviour and/or mental illness
• Male and female patients requiring rapid access, low secure services