Closed: Hospital we exposed for treating patients ‘like animals’

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Private mental health hospital owner Active Care Group has scrapped plans to reopen scandal-hit Taplow Manor – with immediate effect. Active Care Group closed the children’s service at Taplow Manor in March this year, but within two months were advertising the facility as being open for adults. Now that Taplow Manor has closed, Active Care Group’s only remaining children’s mental health hospital will be Ivetsey Bank in Stafford. “At Active Care, the systematic abuse of patients and callous treatment towards migrant workforce have been allowed to go unchecked.” Lara Johnson, a GMB union representative who worked with current staff, said: “GMB are proud to support staff who have been denied the chance to turn around the damage done by the failure to adequately resource or staff Taplow Manor since Montreux Capital Management financed the merger of Active Care Group with the Huntercombe Group.” A spokesperson for Active Care Group said: “Active Care Group has taken the difficult decision to close its Taplow Manor Hospital due to a change in strategic direction.