Forensic services

We deliver a wide range of forensic services across South West London. Our dedicated teams of forensic doctors, nurses, ward staff, therapists and other specialists, work together caring for adults in the community and in our inpatient wards. Transition from secure services to the community is recognised as a particularly difficult time. The forensic outreach service provides ongoing mental health assessment, formulation and treatment to promote recovery and manage risk during and after transition between services in order to safely facilitate patient’s acceptance back to their local teams.

We offer patient centred care, delivering a wide range of treatments including rehabilitation, developing life skills and wellbeing at Shaftesbury Clinic at Springfield University Hospital. The services are medium and low secure and for both men and women. We also offer dedicated care to families, significant others and carers, giving them the best support possible. 

We have three medium secure forensic wards and we also offer specific forensic inpatient services for patients with intellectual disabilities, with or without autism, who require specialist mental health care. 

Our wards are specially adapted for the needs of patients requiring specialist mental healthcare in a forensic setting, is in a brand new state-of-the-art building, opening late Spring at Springfield University Hospital in Tooting – part of a wider redevelopment including shops, cafes and parkland, walking distance from public transport.