Colchester Hospital Mental Health Wards
The Lakes, Colchester, CO4 5JL
Run by Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NHS trust).
How the regulator currently rates the wards here
- Acute wards for adults of working age and psychiatric intensive care units: Requires Improvement (2026-04-09, trust-wide rating)
- Child and adolescent mental health wards: Good (2026-01-08, trust-wide rating)
- Long stay or rehabilitation mental health wards for working age adults: Requires Improvement (2025-10-20, trust-wide rating)
- Community health inpatient services: Good (2025-09-18, trust-wide rating)
- Wards for people with learning disabilities or autism: Requires Improvement (2025-05-27, trust-wide rating)
- Forensic inpatient or secure wards: Good (2024-01-29, trust-wide rating)
- Wards for older people with mental health problems: Requires improvement (2023-07-12, trust-wide rating)
- Community-based mental health services for adults of working age: Requires improvement (2023-07-12, trust-wide rating)
Every fact links to its source: the Care Quality Commission, the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, the trust's own board papers and website.