Psychiatric Services
Weller Wing, the main psychiatric hospital serving the area, is also based on the main site, although it is run by a separate organisation, South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Foundation Trust.
Wards:
- Keats - 24 beds, acute adult psychiatry
- Brontë - 18 beds, acute adult psychiatry
- Chaucer - 15 beds, old-age psychiatry
- Milton - 15 beds, old-age psychiatry - dementia and other organic illnesses
- Sheridan Day Hospital - 15 places per day, for over 65s
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