Lanchester Road Hospital

Lanchester Road Hospital is a mental health facility located in County Durham, England, and lies on a large site just north west of Durham city. It is managed by the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation NHS Trust.[1]

Lanchester Road Hospital
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation NHS Trust
Lanchester Road Hospital
Location in County Durham
Geography
LocationDurham, County Durham, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates54.7985°N 1.6130°W / 54.7985; -1.6130
Organisation
Care systemPublic NHS
TypeLearning Disabilities, Psychiatric
Services
Emergency departmentNo Accident & Emergency
Links
Websitewww.tewv.nhs.uk
ListsHospitals in England

History

The hospital has its origins in the Earl's House Industrial School founded as a vocational residential school for children with special academic needs in the 1890s.[2] After the school closed in 1922, the site developed as the Earl's House Sanatorium in the 1930s and then as a psychiatric facility known as the Earl's House Hospital in the 1960s.[3]

The hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2008. It was announced that the new facility, to be known as the Lanchester Road Hospital, will "... provide adult mental health and learning disability services and has been designed to provide people with a safe, homely and therapeutic environment."[4] The new facility, built at a cost of £17.9 million, opened in 2010.[5]

Services

There are seven wards at Lancaster Road Hospital: (i) Bek - learning disability (adults) assessment, treatment and rehabilitation services (ii) Farnham - adult inpatient services, male (iii) Harland - low secure forensic long term treatment ward for male adults with a learning disability (iv) Langley - low secure forensic rehabilitation ward for male adults with a learning disability (v) Ramsey - learning disability (adults) assessment, treatment and rehabilitation services (vi) Roseberry, Bowes Lyon Unit - older people's assessment and treatment inpatient services and (vii) Tunstall - adult inpatient services, female.[1] Appleton House is the home of the North of England Commissioning Support Unit and provides faith and chaplaincy services as well as pharmacy services.[1]

See also

References
  1. "Lanchester Road Hospital". Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation NHS Trust. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  2. "Earl's House School (now Earl's House Hospital), Lanchester Road, Durham (Durham City)". Keys to the Past. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  3. "Earl's House School (now Earl's House Hospital), Lanchester Road, Durham". Durham at war. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  4. "Contracts signed to build healthcare developments 29 May 2008". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  5. "MP's praise for new hospital 11 March 2010". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
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