Fieldhead Hospital
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{{Infobox hospital
| name = Fieldhead Hospital
| org/group = South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
| logo =
| image = Fieldhead Hospital - viewed from Bar Lane (geograph 3813832).jpg
| caption = Fieldhead Hospital
| location = Wakefield
| region = West Yorkshire
| state =
| country = England
| coordinates = {{coord|53.6974|-1.4923|display=inline,title}}
| healthcare = NHS
| type = Specialist
| speciality = Psychiatric and Learning Disability Hospital
| emergency = N/A
| affiliation= University of Huddersfield
| beds = 208
| founded = 1972
| closed =
| website = {{URL|http://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk/}}
| other_links=
| map_type =West Yorkshire
| map_caption=Shown in West Yorkshire
}}
Fieldhead Hospital is a psychiatric and learning disability hospital in Wakefield, United Kingdom. It is managed by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.meanwoodpark.co.uk/insight/fieldhead-hospital-wakefield/|title=Fieldhead Hospital|publisher=Meanwood Park|accessdate=1 November 2018}} 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.
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.{{cite web|url=https://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk/services/newton-lodge-the-yorkshire-centre-for-forensic-psychiatry/|title=Newton Lodge (The Yorkshire Centre for Forensic Psychiatry)|date=27 June 2018|publisher=South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust|accessdate=1 November 2018}}
The hospital started offering a broader range of psychiatric services, after the Stanley Royd Hospital closed in 1995.{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=705|title=Stanley Royd Hospital, Wakefield|publisher=National Archives|accessdate=1 November 2018}} A patient with paranoid schizophrenia was charged with murdering a fellow-patient at the hospital in December 1998.{{cite news|title=Health Schizophrenic man charged with hospital murder|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/239781.stm|accessdate=18 May 2015|publisher=BBC News|date=21 December 1998}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/health/first-look-inside-psychiatric-hospital-after-17m-upgrade-1-8780030|title=First look inside psychiatric hospital after £17m upgrade|publisher=Wakefield Express|date=29 September 2017|accessdate=1 November 2018}}
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.{{cite web|title=A Glimpse in the Past of a Mental Health Asylum|url=http://www.tourism-review.com/travel-tourism-magazine-uks-museum-of-mental-health-opens-the-door-of-past-article2124|publisher=Tourism Review|accessdate=18 May 2015|date=27 December 2013}} 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.{{cite web|last=|first=|year=2007|title=Yorkshire & Cleveland|url=http://www.medicalheritage.co.uk/YORKSHIRE.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222210/http://www.medicalheritage.co.uk/YORKSHIRE.htm|archive-date=3 March 2016|accessdate=18 May 2015|work=Medical Heritage of Great Britain}}{{cite news|title=Top 10: Unusual British museums|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/5540092/Top-10-Unusual-British-museums.html?image=4|accessdate=18 May 2015|publisher=The Telegraph}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk/ Official Trust website]
{{Hospitals in Yorkshire}}
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