Fieldhead Hospital

Fieldhead Hospital is a psychiatric and learning disability hospital in Wakefield, United Kingdom. It is managed by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Fieldhead Hospital
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Fieldhead Hospital
Shown in West Yorkshire
Geography
Location	Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England
Coordinates	53.6974°N 1.4923°W
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Type	Specialist
Affiliated university	University of Huddersfield
Services
Emergency department	N/A
Beds	208
Speciality	Psychiatric and Learning Disability Hospital
History
Opened	1972
Links
Website	www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk
Lists	Hospitals in England

History

The hospital, which replaced earlier hospitals such as Oulton Hall, Hatfield Hall and Cardigan Hospital, was built at a cost of £2 million and opened by Princess Alexandra on 11 July 1972.[1] The hospital was designed as a series of villas, each named after a local area and each intended to accommodate a category of resident i.e. children, adolescents, adults, geriatrics, or severely disabled.[1]

A medium secure unit, known as Newton Lodge, was built in the north east of the hospital site for mentally disordered offenders in the early 1980s.[2]

The hospital started offering a broader range of psychiatric services, after the Stanley Royd Hospital closed in 1995.[3] A patient suffering from paranoid schizophrenia was charged with murdering a fellow-patient at the hospital in December 1998.[4]

The "Unity Centre", a new building with state of the art therapeutic areas, en-suite bathrooms and vastly improved patient relaxation areas, which was built at a cost of £17 million, was opened in September 2017.[5]

Mental Health Museum

The Mental Health Museum (previously known as the Stephen Beaumont Museum of Mental Health) is located at the hospital. It contains artefacts and exhibits from Stanley Royd Hospital in Wakefield.[6] Artefacts include restraining equipment, a padded cell, photographs, medical and surgical equipment, and documents. There is also a scale model of Stanley Royd Hospital, which was the museum's original location until the hospital closed in 1995.[7][8]

See also

• List of hospitals in England

References

1. "Fieldhead Hospital". Meanwood Park. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
2. "Newton Lodge (The Yorkshire Centre for Forensic Psychiatry)". South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. 27 June 2018. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
3. "Stanley Royd Hospital, Wakefield". National Archives. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
4. "Health Schizophrenic man charged with hospital murder". BBC News. 21 December 1998. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
5. "First look inside psychiatric hospital after £17m upgrade". Wakefield Express. 29 September 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
6. "A Glimpse in the Past of a Mental Health Asylum". Tourism Review. 27 December 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
7. "Yorkshire & Cleveland". Medical Heritage of Great Britain. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
8. "Top 10: Unusual British museums". The Telegraph. Retrieved 18 May 2015.

External links

• Official Trust website