The Harbour

The Harbour is a 154 bed mental health hospital, which provides care and treatment for adults who cannot be safely treated at home. The ward team is multidisciplinary and includes a variety of mental health professionals. 

The hospital has single ensuite bedrooms of varying specialisms over 10 wards, the wards are defined as follows:

• Churchill and Orwell: two Male acute mental health wards
• Shakespeare and Stevenson: two Female acute mental health wards
• Dickens: Male advanced care need ward
• Austen: Female advanced care need ward
• Wordsworth: Male dementia ward
• Bronte: Female dementia ward
• Moorgate: Male Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
• Byron: Female Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)

The Harbour ethos – the Lancashire way

The Harbour has been specifically designed to fulfil the Lancashire Way Ethos.

Our focus is to be:

• Person Centred – respecting a person’s need for privacy and dignity
• Needs-led – care based on a person’s individual need not their age
• Accommodating of and responsive to physical health care needs
• Focused on recovery and promoting independence
• Therapeutic – achieved through the design and environment as well as formal therapeutic interventions
• Empowering by providing the facilities needed for people to continue and develop their everyday living skill.