New Craigs Psychiatric Hospital | |
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NHS Highland | |
Geography | |
Location | Leachkin, Inverness, Scotland |
Coordinates | 57°28′12″N4°16′5″W / 57.47000°N 4.26806°W |
Organisation | |
Funding | Private finance initiative scheme in Scotland. |
Type | Specialist |
Services | |
Beds | 234 [1] |
Speciality | Psychiatric Hospital |
History | |
Opened | 2000 |
Links | |
Other links | List of hospitals in Scotland |
New Craigs Psychiatric Hospital is a hospital situated in Leachkin, on the western outskirts of Inverness, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Highland. [2]
The facility is a 234-bed healthcare campus that provides mental health and learning disability accommodation. [1] New Craigs, which replaced Craig Dunain Hospital and Craig Phadrig Hospital both of which were both located nearby, opened in July 2000. [3]
The hospital was the first psychiatric facility to be funded under a private finance initiative scheme in Scotland. It was built and managed by Robertson Group, with NHS Highland repaying for the cost over a 25-year contract. [1] Under the PFI arrangement the facility cost £16.5 million to build but the total cost that NHS Highland is expected to bear is estimated at £106 million. [4] [5]
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