About Oakdale
Oakdale is a specialist provider of psychological services with a track record of providing innovative programmes and excellent clinical outcomes. Established 10 years ago, Oakdale has grown to be a leading provider of employee support and patient services across the UK.
Cygnet Healthcare, a leading provider of in-patient mental health services in the UK has recently acquired a majority interest in Oakdale.
Oakdale’s services include:
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Psychological therapies for NHS patients in Primary Care
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Employee support including Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) and Critical Incident and Post-Trauma services
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Occupational health-related services including psychological assessments, case management and treatment
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Therapy for self-referring private clients.

Oakdale is a subsidiary of Cygnet Health Care.
Ken Wilson (Cygnet’s Executive Chairman), John Hughes (Cygnet’s founder) and Adrian Munday (Cygnet’s Commercial Director) are on Oakdale board directors and Ken Wilson is Oakdale’s chairman.
Cygnet is one of Britain’s leading independent providers of psychiatric care, providing a personalized service to patients with psychological, emotional and addiction problems.
Cygnet was founded in 1988, and today is:
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the largest outsourcing provider to the NHS of acute and intensive care psychiatry.
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Britain’s largest provider of heroin detoxification services.
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Britain’s second largest independent provider of acute psychiatric services.
Cygnet operates 16 centres with more than 600 inpatient beds with:
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twelve clinics care for acutely ill psychiatric patients suffering from a broad range of psychological and emotional disorders
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two units are registered nursing homes providing long term and respite care for private fee-paying elderly residents
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Detox5, an opiate detoxification centre in Harrogate
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a residential care home in Kent for people with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome.
For more information visit www.cygnethealth.co.uk

Oakdale and Mental Health Concern have formed a joint arrangement to provide psychological therapy services to the people of Northumberland. These services are provided under the trading style of mhco.
Mental Health Concern (MHC) is a ‘not for profit' organisation providing a wide range of specialist nurse-led services, including supported accommodation and meaningful day activities for people with mental health problems.
MHC aims to provide a high quality service that works towards ordinary lives for people with mental health problems. The services aim to provide service users with independence, fulfilment, choice, citizenship, privacy, dignity and rights.
The formation of mhco created an organisation that:
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was knowledgeable in the field of primary care psychological therapy and the requirements of the NHS’s IAPT programme (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies)
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had the capability to deliver stepped care
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was committed to clinical quality
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understood local issues and requirements and was capable of resolving the issues and meeting the requirements
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would clearly deliver value for money
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was innovative and had a track record of successfully implementing valuable innovations.
For more information visit www.mentalhealthconcern.org/mhco/