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The Causeway Retreat was an addiction treatment centre located on Osea Island near Essex, England, from 2005 to 2010.
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History
In 1903 Frederick Charrington, who had disinherited himself from his family's brewing business and become a prominent temperance campaigner in London's East End, purchased an island off the coast of Maldon, Essex called Osea Island.
During Mr Charrington's time the island provided free treatment to those individuals suffering from the ill effects of alcohol and opiate addiction. In return for treatment clients would remain on the island and work the land.
The island was eventually requisitioned by the Admiralty and subsequently turned into a top secret torpedo manufacturing base for both World Wars.
In 2005 Brendan Quinn psychiatric nurse with a degree in addiction treatment founded The Causeway Retreat for addiction treatment on Osea island, with business partner Nigel Frieda, a music producer.
Although The Causeway Retreat has been closed down, the island continues to be used as a non-profit retreat by former servicemen and women suffering from PTSD.
News reports of licensing and other problems
In March 2010 The Causeway Retreat was reported to be under investigation from the UK health regulator Care Quality Commission (CQC), which regulates NHS trusts and private clinics. Licensing, staffing, supply of medicines and the role of the charitable arm Changing Lives were listed as areas to be examined[1].
On April 29, 2010, a further report claimed that the Care Quality Commission had ordered the retreat to close, after it had admitted new patients despite a request not to do so pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations that it was treating patients without a licence under the Care Standards Act. The CQC was reported to have asked the retreat to remove its clients and close its doors within a week. It was also reported that some families whose relatives had been treated at the retreat had launched legal action against it[2].
The Causeway Retreat was refused registration on the 30th September 2010 by the Care Quality Commission, and Brendan Quinn was suspended as a nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Council on the 20th of September 2010[3]. On the 19th November 2010 Brendan Quinn's Twenty 7 Management, which had run the Causeway Retreat, pled guilty at Chelmsford Magistrate's Court, was find £ 8,000 plus £ 30,000 costs, for running an unlicenced hospital[4]. District Judge David Cooper said the firm's standards "would really shame a third world country"[5].
References
- ^ Moyes, Stephen (17 March 2010). "Amy Winehouse rehab clinic in patient 'licensing row'". Daily Mirror. http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/03/17/rehab-no-no-no-115875-22116738. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
- ^ Laurance, Jeremy (29 April 2010). "Celebrity rehab clinic closed by health watchdog". The Independent (London). http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/celebrity-rehab-clinic-closed-by-health-watchdog-1957285.html.
- ^ {{url=http://www.nmc-uk.org/Documents/FTPOutcomes/October2010/Reasons%20ICIO%20Quinn%2020101020.pdf |title=Reasons for the Interim Order Hearing of the Investigating Committee}}
- ^ {{url=http://www.cqc.org.uk/newsandevents/newsstories.cfm?widCall1=customWidgets.content_view_1&cit_id=36886&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CareQualityCommissionNewsArticles+%28Care+quality+commission+%28CQC%29+news+articles%29&utm_content=Twitter |title=CQC: Regulator successful in Causeway Retreat prosecution}}
- ^ "Essex celebrity rehab centre 'duped' patients". BBC News (London). 19 November 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-11798981.
External links
- CQC takes action on The Causeway Retreat: CQC Press Release 14 June 2010
- Depressed? You will be when you check in here: Prue Leith, The Spectator, July 11, 2009
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