Sandwell Park Hospital

Provides adult mental health services and mental health services for older people. Sandwell Park is a 20 bed acute assessment and treatment ward for older adults with a wide variety of mental health problems. The ward adopts a recovery-orientated approach. The assessment process is centred around planning for recovery, using cognitive behavioural approaches. This offers the possibility of improvement in a person’s condition and/or experience, fostering hope for the future, and emphasises the importance of the person finding personal resilience and taking personal responsibility for their own wellbeing.