Royal Cornhill Hospitalis apsychiatric hospitalin Westburn Road,Aberdeen,Scotland.It is managed byNHS Grampian.
| Royal Cornhill Hospital | |
|---|---|
| NHS Grampian | |
 Royal Cornhill Hospital | |
  Shown in Aberdeen | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Cornhill Road,Aberdeen,Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 57°09′15″N2°06′59″W/ 57.1542°N 2.1164°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | PublicNHS |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No Accident & Emergency |
| Speciality | Psychiatric hospital |
| History | |
| Opened | 1800 |
| Links | |
| Website | Hospital website |
| Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
History
editThe hospital was founded as the Aberdeen Lunatic Asylum in 1800.[1]The city's dancing master,Francis Peacock,donated all the funds from the profits of his 1805 book on dancing to the asylum[2]and an enlarged facility designed byArchibald Simpsonopened in 1818.[3]
It was renamed the Aberdeen Royal Lunatic Asylum in 1852[1]and a new hospital for sick and acute cases was built to the north of the existing facility in 1896.[3]Pavilions for the treatment oftuberculosiswere added in the 1920s[3]and the facility became the Aberdeen Royal Mental Hospital in 1933.[1]It suffered from bomb damage, which resulted in four fatalities, in 1943 during theSecond World War.[3]The facility joined theNational Health Servicein 1948 and became the Royal Cornhill Hospital in 1964.[1]It was completely redeveloped in the early 1990s and the new modernised facilities re-opened in 1994.[3]
In 2013 theHealth and Safety Executiveissued an official warning that risk assessments at the hospital for patients in danger of self harming were insufficient, after three suicides.[4]
In 2015 proposals were put forward to redevelop part of the site which was surplus to requirements for residential use.[5]
References
edit- ^abcd"Collection: GB 1105: NHS Grampian Archives".calms.abdn.ac.uk.Aberdeen University. Archived fromthe originalon 3 May 2015.Retrieved15 December2016.
- ^Johnson, James (1853).The Scots Musical Museum.W. Blackwood and Sons. p. 126.
- ^abcde"Royal Cornhill Hospital".Historic Hospitals. 26 April 2015.Archivedfrom the original on 23 December 2018.Retrieved22 January2019.
- ^"Royal Cornhill deaths: Hospital had 'insufficient' risk assessment".STV. 25 July 2013.Archivedfrom the original on 4 March 2016.Retrieved24 August2015.
- ^"Revised housing plans for Royal Cornhill Hospital approved".Press and Journal. 13 February 2015.Archivedfrom the original on 22 January 2019.Retrieved24 August2015.