Fieldhead Hospital
| Fieldhead Hospital | |
|---|---|
| South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 53°41′51″N 1°29′32″W / 53.6974°N 1.4923°WCoordinates: 53°41′51″N 1°29′32″W / 53.6974°N 1.4923°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Hospital type | Specialist |
| Affiliated university | University of Huddersfield |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | N/A |
| Beds | 208 |
| Speciality | Psychiatric hospital |
| Links | |
| Website |
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| Lists | Hospitals in England |
Fieldhead Hospital is a Psychiatric and Learning disability Hospital in Wakefield, United Kingdom. It is part of South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital was formerly operated by Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health Trust.[1]
Wards and services
Fieldhead Hospital provides the following wards and services:[2]
- Adult psychological therapies service
- Bretton Centre (male low-secure forensic mental health centre) - 38 beds
- Briarfields (Electroconvulsive therapy and Clozapine clinic)
- Care Home Liaison Team
- Chantry unit (elderly mental health treatment and assessment ward) - 16 Beds
- Memory services
- Newhaven (low-secure learning disability ward) - 16 Beds
- Newton Lodge (medium-secure forensic mental health hospital) - 90 Beds
- Outpatients
- Priory 2 (mental health ward) - 22 Beds
- Specialist forensic outreach team
- Trinity 1 (Psychiatric intensive-care unit) - 14 Beds
- Trinity 2 (male inpatient mental health ward) - 22 Beds
Mental Health Museum
The Mental Health Museum (previously known as the Stephen Beaumont Museum of Mental Health) is located at Fieldhead Hospital. It contains artefacts from and exhibits on the history of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum.[3] Artefacts include restraining equipment, a padded cell, photographs, medical and surgical equipment, and documents. There is also a scale model of the original 1818 Stanley Royd Hospital, which was the museum's original location until the hospital closed in 1995.[4][5]
See also
References
- ↑ "Health Schizophrenic man charged with hospital murder". BBC News. 21 December 1998. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
- ↑ "Fieldhead, Wakefield Overview". NHS Choices. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
- ↑ "A Glimpse in the Past of a Mental Health Asylum". Tourism Review. 27 December 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
- ↑ "Yorkshire & Cleveland". Medical Heritage of Great Britain. 2007. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
- ↑ "Top 10: Unusual British museums". The Telegraph. Retrieved 18 May 2015.