The award-winning St Andrew's Healthcare has confirmed it now has the funding package in place to enable a further major investment in brand new facilities at its Northampton base.

St Andrew's, the largest charity sector provider of NHS care, has agreed a £52.5m funding package with Lloyds TSB, to include funding the construction of a new 90-bed psychiatric hospital. The new facility will provide secure accommodation for a number of new services and will allow expansion of its existing national services.

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Professor Philip Sugarman Chief Executive Officer at St Andrew's said: "In the last ten years we have completed a £200m programme of development and refurbishment across four sites, with our new units achieving high levels of occupancy. We have seen continuous growth and a recent sharp rise in market share.

"We are now ready to plan the next phase of growth, with new facilities for service users placed with us by our NHS customers. These developments will strengthen our position as the UK’s leading provider of specialist secure care and as the country's only independent national teaching hospital."

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