Wards 7A and 7B at Woodland View and Lochranza Ward at Ailsa Hospital are rehabilitation wards providing treatment and care for both male and female patients between the ages of 16 and 64 (although people who are not in this age group can be accepted if agreed by the multidisciplinary team). Patients who have been assessed and considered to have made improvements from the acute phase of their mental health problems, but who require further assistance to return to a community setting will spend time in these wards. Some of these rehabilitation wards offer day attendance for people living in the community.
Ward 7A and 7B have ten single en suite rooms and Lochranza has 12 single rooms.
Ward telephone numbers:
- Ward 7A – 01294 322363
- Ward 7B – 01294 322366
- Lochranza Ward – 01292 513097
Ward 7C at Woodland View provides care and treatment for individuals experiencing a mental disorder who may have a history of criminal behaviour linked to their illness. Ward 7C embraces a person-centred, strengths-based model in supporting people to work towards a returning to live in the community. Ward 7C has ten single en suite rooms.
Ward 7C telephone number:
- 01294 322367
Ward 6 at Woodland is a low secure male-only ward delivering intensive, holistic and comprehensive, inter-disciplinary treatment and care. Care and treatment offered is person centred and length of stay is appropriate to the clinical needs of patients and assessment of risk. Patients who need hospital admission for assessment or treatment but do not need intensive care and require a rehabilitation programme within a low secure setting (patients usually involved in criminal proceedings, requiring transfer from custodial settings) can participate in this programme. The ward has eight single en suite rooms.
Ward 6 telephone number:
- 01294 322370
Visiting Times
Please contact individual wards about visiting times. All wards have protected meal times, do not visit during the following times:
- Breakfast – 8am – 9am
- Lunch – 12noon – 1pm
- Dinner – 5pm – 6pm
The Community Forensic Mental Health Service (CFMHS) is a multidisciplinary team providing a tertiary mental health service for the assessment and treatment of people with a mental disorder and a history of serious violent or sexual offending, or less serious but persistent offending linked to a mental disorder (for example a learning disability) which cannot be managed by other mental health services.
The CFMHS team accepts referrals from a variety of sources including community mental health teams, learning disability services, addiction services, social work, inpatient services, justice services, courts, prison and police.
The team is currently based at Ailsa Hospital but will move to the horseshoe building on the Ayrshire Central site in March or April 2018.
CFMHS telephone number:
- 01292 513731
Acorn Furniture Workshop
Acorn Furniture Workshop helps people who have past or ongoing mental health issues to recover by developing their work skills and helping them to establish career goals, as well as promoting them to potential future employers or further education. Acorn Furniture Workshop is facilitated by nursing staff and technical instructors.
Although the furniture workshop is based in South Ayrshire, the service is open to all individuals within NHS Ayrshire & Arran who meet the criteria for referral and are over 18.
The team accepts referrals from Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT), GPs, addiction services, the primary care mental health team, and consultant psychiatrists through outpatient clinics and in-patient services.