Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust (BEH) has received a mixed report from the official government inspector.

Healthcare watchdog Care Quality Commission (CQC) said of the 11 core services provided by the trust, six are rated as either ‘outstanding’ or ‘good’, but the remaining five are in the ‘requiring improvement’ category.

Services that require improvement are the acute mental health wards for adults, community mental health services, and the Beacon Centre, the children’s ward.

Specialist community mental health services for young people, and the emergency home treatment services were also earmarked for development.

Meanwhile, the inspectors found BEH’s forensic services to be outstanding.

Five services, including Enfield Community Services, were also rated as good.

Mary Sexton, director of nursing for BEH, said: “We welcomed the CQC’s assessment of our trust and we are delighted that six of our services have been rated so highly. 

“I am proud that we have been awarded ‘good’ for the caring domain by the CQC inspectors who saw the high levels of care provided to our patients across the entire Trust. 

“The five services designated as requiring improvement are not a surprise to us, with the CQC complimenting us on the fact that we were already working on improvement action plans for these services.

“We are not being complacent, and while we have many areas of fantastic work going on, we know there is still lots to do, and we will do it.”

She said she was looking to recruit more permanent managers to oversee improvements, although she admitted that they would have to carefully manage the budget in order to do so.

BEH is one of the largest Trusts in London, providing care to approximately 155,000 people a year.

BEH chief executive Maria Kane said: “We will continue to focus on these five services to ensure they match the quality of the rest of our provision. 

“We were already working on improvement plans for these areas and will now work even closer with our partners and with the CQC to ensure the required actions take place.

“However, it is important to say that just because five of our services need to improve it does not mean they are unsafe, if that had been the case the CQC would have taken more focused action. 

“The majority of healthcare providers across the country receive a ‘requires improvement’ rating, and one thing the CQC report does make clear is the quality of care we provide, which was rated as good.”