Making Room for Dignity - Radbourne Unit refurbishment
The Trust is currently refurbishing the Radbourne Unit, on the Royal Derby Hospital, site to create two 17 bedded acute wards for adults of working age, as part of the Making Room for Dignity programme.
- All rooms with be single and en-suite, improving privacy and dignity and bringing our inpatient provision in line with national requirements.
- The refurbishment will be equipped with modern facilities and additional resources (for example a shared therapy suite incorporating ADL kitchen, indoor fitness room, online library resource room and arts room).
- It is intended, following feedback from service users and staff, that therapy-based tools shall be increased to aid recovery. The refurbishments allow for this to a greater extent than the unit.
- There is evidence to suggest that single room accommodation and an eradication of dormitory style facilities can reduce the length of stay in a hospital setting.
- Single room settings will allow for an improvement to individual patient care. Patient preferences can be considered to a greater degree.
- Single rooms will allow for better infection control and reduction in the risk of incidents involving patients or staff.
PLEASE NOTE: Patients that were on Ward 33 and Ward 35 prior to 29 May 2025 have now moved to the Carsington Unit at Kingsway Hospital, Derby.
About the Radbourne Unit
Based on the Royal Derby Hospital site, the Radbourne Unit is one of the Trust’s inpatient service for Derby and South Derbyshire residents with acute mental health needs. The Radbourne Unit consists of two male, adult acute inpatient wards called Ward 35 and Ward 36, an electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) team, occupational therapy services and the crisis resolution and home treatment services. A Hope and Resilience Hub, embracing the principles of recovery in mental health care, opened in February 2015.
The Beeches Mother and Baby Unit is also based on this site, providing care and treatment for women who are at risk of or experiencing serious mental illness either antenatally or postnatally.
About the wards
Each ward strives to provide high quality evidence-based inpatient mental healthcare, to adults of working age (typically 18-65 although not exclusively), in a calm and safe environment that is therapeutic and conducive to the process of recovery.
Each ward offers a 24-hour emergency service from a well-trained workforce in order to deliver safe and clinically effective care. We focus heavily on patient experience and actively seek to engage patients and their carers to become actively involved in their care plan. Patient meetings are held weekly and these are used to promote the sense of community, raise and resolve concerns, plan therapeutic activities for the week ahead and to mutually explore potential for improving the service we provide. All patients are allocated a named nurse on admission who will act as a primary contact and guide the patient through the care planning, delivery and evaluation whilst on the ward.
Visiting times
Weekdays- 2:30pm-4:30pm and 6:30pm-8:30pm
Weekends- 10am-12, 2:30pm-4:30pm and 6:30pm-8:30pm
Useful documents
Radbourne Unit Inpatient Guide
Healthwatch Derby: Enter & View Report Radbourne Unit - October 2014
- Part of the Healthwatch Derby programme is to carry out Enter and View visits, under the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Healthwatch Derby authorised representatives carry out visits to health and social care services to see how services are being run and make recommendations where there are areas for improvement.
Contact
Radbourne Unit
Royal Derby Hospital Site
Uttoxeter Road
Derby
DE22 3WQ
Telephone: 01332 623700
The Hope and Resilience Hub was opened in February 2015 and has been developed using feedback from former service receivers, that upon discharge from an acute mental health hospital, they often felt isolated from the community and unable to continue with their recovery unsupported.
The service provides the recovery and home treatment/resilience aspect of the urgent care service within the Radbourne Unit (including the acute day treatment service).
The Hub houses 20 beds on a ward to support people rebuilding their lives after an episode of acute mental illness with the expectation that much of a person’s time is spent being supported into their home and community.
