Cygnet Health Care is an independent provider of mental health services which operates over 150 centres with more than 2,500 beds across the UK. It is a subsidiary of Universal Health Services, which acquired it for £205 million in 2014. It has 15 rehabilitation sites nationwide, comprising 25 wards and 338 beds. Some of the company's clients pay privately, but most are funded by the NHS buying extra capacity. In 2013/4 Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust spent £1.2 million with the company. In December 2016 it bought the adult services business of Cambian Group PLC in a deal worth £377 million. The deal was referred for investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority in May 2017, which ordered the merged company to sell one of its hospitals in the East Midlands, to counter the loss of competition. Stephen Firn, former chief executive of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and a non-executive director of the company, was appointed to lead the healthcare division in 2022. Performance In 2020 it established an independent advisory board. Clare Gerada joined it in March 2021. Adolescent care In 2017 the CQC raised concerns about the safety and quality of the firm's hospitals in Sheffield and Woking. It ordered admissions to be suspended at Knole Ward at the Cygnet Hospital at Godden Green, near Sevenoaks, which operates a tier 4 child and adolescent mental health service because of concerns about the use of seclusion and segregation. The company announced in November 2017 that it would no longer provide children and adolescents' mental health services in its regional psychiatric intensive care unit at Cygnet Hospital Woking. In December 2017, Cygnet Health Care was accused of failing vulnerable young patients Three warning notices and fixed penalty notices for failing to make "required notifications" of patient safety incidents were issued by the CQC after an "urgent" inspection in November 2017. The Cygnet Hospital Godden Green was restricted to eight admissions. It was said that staff were "often reliant on police intervention" to manage incidents in the hospital, and were not always competent and skilled. It was rated good after an inspection in February 2018. Plans to open 12 CAMHS eating disorder beds at Godden Green in 2019 were paused after three incidents at the hospital. The CQC issued two warning notices around safe care and treatment, and good governance. In July 2019 the CQC imposed two requirement notices – relating