Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
The Priory Hospital...reviews
I recently have had need to source serious mental health support for someone due to the lack of resources at the NHS. One of the major players in the private sector is The Priory Hospital. Yet the reviews from service users are utterly damning. How does it continue to be so successful?...a mystery to me...
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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It seems to trade on its celebrity associations. I mean it offers counselling for “compulsive texting” for goodness sake.
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Permalink Reply by Neil on
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Philip makes a political point about a lack of resources in the NHS mental health service and he slams the private service at the Priory 'as utterly damning'. This is left wing propaganda.
The truth is quite different. The NHS Mental Health Service has a far worse track record as all the scandals in the newspapers show. The taxpayer via the government is pouring record amounts of money into the NHS service and the results do not get a lot better.
The Priory treats thousands of patients successfully and we only hear of the few who are failed. The Priory saves the NHS millions of pounds as it treats people and companies who pay for it, thus saving a cost burden on the NHS.
The problem is that mental health patients are a difficult group to help as a minority do not comply with the medication or medical advice offered to them for various psychological reasons and despite their doctors best intentions and efforts.
I hope I have solved your unreasonable 'mystery' in understanding the Priory.
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Permalink Reply by Roslyn Byfield on
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They and other private providers also bid (and get lucrative NHS contracts, creeping privatisation of the NHS) then cherry pick the easy cases, leaving the others for the NHS to pick up.
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Precisely. I wonder when the last time was that a street drinker with long term mental health problems passed through the hallowed doors of The Priory.
The NHS deals with cases the private sector wouldn’t touch with a barge pole. People who exhibit violent behaviour for instance or long term chronic illnesses. When you cream of the “easier” cases, leaving the really tough ones to the NHS, their results will always look worse.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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By way a a side-note, the Priory was formed out of a house built by Walker Gray, brother of Edward Gray who built Harringay House. Since it was built at very much the same time, I've wondered if it might not give us some clues at to how Harringay House looked.
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Interesting... where is it, Hugh?
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Groveland park on Bourne Hill / The Bourne
Beautiful building lovely park.
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The photo shows the beautiful building the private Priory clinic chooses to dignify their mental health patients with. I imagine the communal rooms and the bedrooms are very nice and comfortable.
This building is far nicer than the good, but basic and run down, St Annes hospital in Tottenham where a lot of NHS patients go to.
The Priory, shown above, is a beautiful place to work and stay. Hopefully, these positive conditions lead to quick and long lasting outcomes for patients the NHS chooses to send to this stately house.
I hope the NHS sends more vulnerable patients to private clinics like this.
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