Beacon UK was a private provider of mental health services launched in the UK in September 2011 by Dr Emma Stanton, a practising NHS psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.
She is a former adviser to Sir Liam Donaldson and co-founded Diagnosis, a clinical leadership social enterprise.
[4] She is quoted by the NHS Confederation as saying: “Measuring care and outcomes in mental health is often put in the ‘too difficult’ box yet capturing data on whether people have homes to live in, jobs to go to, appropriate medication, financial stability and social interactions are possible for other conditions so why not for people with mental health problems too.”[5] Beacon recommends treatment at home through teams of doctors, nurses and social workers, not through hospital admission.
[6] Beacon analysed data supplied by Improving Access to Psychological Therapies providers in 2012.
[8] The contract agreed with Birmingham South Central Clinical Commissioning Group requires the consortium to deliver services for children, adolescents and adults under 25 over five years.