Bushey Fields Hospital

My daughter lives below a patient of busy fields he's only been there 2 weeks and has been allowed home ! Hes been abusive, & aggressive, , his next of kin hasn't been given any information regarding his care , its just a waiting game as to what damage or life he will take out !! Bushy fields will have blood on their hands

My son was patient in bushyfields for 17 days in that time they gave me no information regarding my son's care , and I rang or visited him everyday . They took him to an appointment with to his cardiac clinic and he was allowed to walk out .I had no phone call to tell me my son had escaped the first I knew of it was when he walked into my house . I live 2mile away from his appointment and it's an easy half hour walk . Within 15 mins of him being home he was cuffed by the police andtaken back , still no phone call to explain how this was allowed to happen The next day they moved him and even though I had visited him in the morning they didn't call to let me know he had been moved . The first I heard about it was when I rang bushyfields to ask how he was . The staff I spoke to on his visits were all nice to me but the information regarding my son's care was abysmal . He is in the care of another hospital now and I will be asking a lot more questions this time ..

I spent a week at bushy fields. You are treated like cattle. Eat, sleep, meds, repeat. No talking therapy offered. No stimulation day or night. The staff constantly mock and laugh at the patients and it becomes a self sustaining care system between the patients rather than the staff looking after them. My property was taken and used by the staff for personal gain without my permission and one of my charging wires was lost (even though they are locked up due to the risk of strangulation) so I am unsure of how that has come about due to the fact that I left it in my prescribed locked area. Most of the staff administering the medication did not even know what they were giving me and on several occasions I noticed that they gave the patients the wrong medications and it was the patients themselves that had to flag up the fact that the medications were incorrect. The staff use sectioning as punishment for things that could be dealt with through a simple compassionate discussion and they often try to criminalize the patients even though some have very complex issues. Institutionalization is rife in this place. Trauma and upset are dealt with via punishment in this place. I left feeling patronized, trivialized and was turfed out with no hint of aftercare despite being on strong medication and was told my treatment is done and must leave immediately with no understanding of how difficult that may be to arrange. I really feel for all who I left behind. The large majority of staff are bullies. Some of course have their heart in the right place and are absolutely lovely but that is unfortunately in the large minority.

GP gets in touch explaining about a client who cannot leave his home and shows signs of suicidal tendencies and desperately needs professional help. Bushy fields response is to make an appointment to go visit them at Bushy fields, refuse to listen that the person is unable to travel there due to there mental health condition and reschedule anther appointment to go there. It comes to something when a mental health hospital doesn't understand basic mental health issues. Note for the team. An agoraphobic (which I am) is unable to leave the home, if I was able to get to you I wouldn't be needing your help on the issue. Totally uncaring unless you seem an easy fix (this has been ongoing for many years now, at one point it resulted in having my money stopped for 6 months thanks to this place, I thought they were supposed to help, not make patients WORSE)

Not a place to be, many strange comments recieved, mind games, place didn't feel right , husband called and was told things happened on days they didn't which he noticed, scary place, very strange comments for a place to help deal with mental health, patients saying they knew there was a reason they were in their when I was in their asked questions about paintings on the walls , n short staffed on nurses medication sometimes given out by someone called lily, night staff were not friendly, queried being given a drug which wasn't part of my medication, got calmed down when tried to chase this up with my doctor just as I was about to tell him., blood pressure had to be taken straight away as heart was slowing with what they had given. Whole place is a set up, drugs you shouldn't be having, by people not qualified, they ask you ofdd questions, set up, by people and after time you realise how bad and silly they treat you and make you look, but you feel so scared and vulnerable in their because when you ask why you are being given extra drugs n they shout just swallow it, if you go to tell the doctor that comes in the building to review you they section you to shut you up

Ineresting. I found who I spoke to needed counselling skills training. I was discussing my symptoms and was shut down which resulted in me getting confused. I was fobbed off and wasn't treated respectfully. Ticking boxes is all it was. I'll be going elsewhere.

Either do not care about patients or do not care about the safety of their staff. When they send their staff out into a dangerous situation without informing them about the patient or reading the patients notes first... Well I hope the 2 that was on my doorstep enjoyed the terror I could see in their eyes, I know I did! Doing the one thing they knew would put their staff and the patient in danger. Awesome hospital and care

Absolutely atrocious! Vile, rude, neglectful staff with absolutely no understanding of mental health whatsoever. They had no idea patients had a number of contraband items that could have been harmful to others despite being used right in front of their faces (lighters for example) and when we arrived for visitation after a 6 hour drive they had no idea where my sister was! As it turns out she had escaped, gone to the local shop and bought alcohol and pills (alcoholic with severe suicidal tendencies besides other things) and necked them. They didn’t even know she was missing until we arrived! Absolutely shocking. “1-on-1” is also a lie! There are about 15 patients minimum and 6 members of staff, including 1 cleaner and only 1 psychiatric doctor!

I’d like to thank all the staff for there hard work what they do behind the scenes they treat you with dignity and respect from the moment I arrived my mind was put at rest.There are to many names to mention but I would like to thank Neil,Becki,Lilly,Sam,Tracy,Stella and Sim to mention a few for putting my mind at rest and for being very professional and understanding,keep up the good work guys and to the rest of the staff thank you for making me feel comfortable and making the most out of the my situation..Great service great people I was quite sad to leave there..but onwards and upwards ☺️