The St Aubyn Centre is a mental health facility at 216 Turner Road, Colchester, Essex. It has two wards: (i) Longview Ward which is a General Adolescent unit which provides care and treatment for young people with mental health difficulties between the ages of 13 and 18 and (ii) Larkwood Ward which is a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) caring for children of the same age group.[1] Larkwood is the only Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit in the NHS East of England region for young people.[2]
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- ^ "Child and adolescent mental health services". NHS. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
- ^ "St Aubyn Centre". Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 2 November 2018.