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Mental Health Services

Inpatient and forensic services

NHS Ayrshire & Arran’s inpatient and forensic services are based across two sites, at Ailsa Hospital in South Ayrshire and Woodland View in North Ayrshire. Although mental health services come under the North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership, inpatient and community forensic care provided throughout Ayrshire.

In the Spring of 2016 many of NHS Ayrshire and Arran’s inpatient mental health facilities moved into a new purpose built Community Hospital (Woodland View) on the Ayrshire Central Hospital site. Mental health wards that moved to Woodland View included the majority of adult inpatient wards at Ailsa and the two Mental Health wards that were previously at University Hospital in Kilmarnock.

Services are structured into 4 distinct areas:

Ward 5 at Woodland View is managed by NHS Ayrshire & Arran’s Addiction Services and further information regarding this provision can be found by clicking here.

Management Structure 

The above services within this management structure are supported by a range of staff including:

  • Bed managers
  • Clinical Nurse Managers (CNMs)
  • Night duty co-ordinators
  • CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) therapists
  • Training officers