The Darwin Centre stoke-on-trent

I was in the Darwin centre for 10 months and I can only say what an amazing hospital is it. All the staff put their all into my recovery and help no matter what. The care I was given was phenomenal, i cant thank everyone enough! Although I never wanted to end up in hospital im just so glad i ended up in this one, I feel happier and healthier after my stay and can now start to move on with my life & recovery. I dont know what I wouldve done without the whole team!

I stayed at the Darwin for about 2 months for my admission and I couldn't of asked for better support from all members of staff. The team are very friendly and were 100% supportive throughout my stay and helped me tremendously towards my recovery! I would highly recommend the Darwin centre from anywhere else as I've been to other mental health wards and this particular one is by far the best. Not only do you get the help and support that you need but you also feel comfortable approaching staff members when needed. A big thank you to the team and for putting up with me! Thanks :)

I’m currently an inpatient here and I have good and bad experiences. The nurses are very caring and understanding and I feel listened to and believed by them. However, I have had different experiences with the healthcares. Some are really understanding and caring , where I have found that others are either rude and manipulative or doesn’t know what they are doing. I would recommend it here though as it’s a friendly and welcoming environment and the psychiatrists are also really understanding and caring especially my doctor.

I believe in a lot of the staff and they have helped me mentally but unfortunately some staff aren't as trustworthy. I love the support of the hospital and I want them to be treated with respect.They looked after me even through my hard times but you guys make your own opinion.

I stayed here for just over a month and the staff and patients were all nice and kind and also east to get along with, but it didn’t help me and to be honest I think I’m just the same as I was before and in the past week I’ve had 3 breakdowns worse than normal and 2 of them were before discharge. I’m at A&E now after being discharged yesterday. the treatment they tried to give didn’t help. I think there is too much push on home leave, I want to be home for a while not back and forwards, they put this as the cause of all my problems and it then felt like I couldn’t talk to most of the staff. There was also a lot of miscommunication with me and staff and also staff and my parents, for example my parents had no clue what was happening with leave a lot of the time and I was not told a lot of things i later found out I should have been. Even so I do think it was positive being around other people and everyone there is really nice, friendly and easy to get along with, but as far as treatment went and me being better and ok went it was just talk of discharge. Which yes I do want to be discharged but when I’m at least a little better off, I think this also made it feel like I was just going to be dropped before any changes were made towards my mood. Thank you for trying to help me though, and I will miss some of the people I met there ♡︎

My experience at the Darwin wasn't good some staff were not supportive and thought I was doing stuff for attention they didn't help me with my eating disorder at all. Some of the healthcare staff were nice and more supportive than the nurses. I asked to be discharged as I felt rubbish when I got there and still did when I left from there so for me it didn't help