Royal Cornhill Hospital | |
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NHS Grampian | |
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 | Public NHS |
Type | Specialist |
Services | |
Emergency department | No Accident & Emergency |
Speciality | Psychiatric hospital |
History | |
Opened | 1800 |
Links | |
Website | Hospital website |
Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
Royal Cornhill Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Westburn Road, Aberdeen, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Grampian.
The 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 by Archibald Simpson opened 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 of tuberculosis were 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 the Second World War. [3] The facility joined the National Health Service in 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 the Health and Safety Executive issued 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]
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