Royal Cornhill Hospital

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Royal Cornhill Hospital
NHS Grampian
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Royal Cornhill Hospital
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Geography
LocationCornhill Road, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
Coordinates 57°09′15″N2°06′59″W / 57.1542°N 2.1164°W / 57.1542; -2.1164
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Type Specialist
Services
Emergency department No Accident & Emergency
Speciality Psychiatric hospital
History
Opened1800
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.

History

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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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Collection: GB 1105: NHS Grampian Archives". calms.abdn.ac.uk. Aberdeen University. Archived from the original on 3 May 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  2. Johnson, James (1853). The Scots Musical Museum. W. Blackwood and Sons. p. 126.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Royal Cornhill Hospital". Historic Hospitals. 26 April 2015. Archived from the original on 23 December 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  4. "Royal Cornhill deaths: Hospital had 'insufficient' risk assessment". STV. 25 July 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  5. "Revised housing plans for Royal Cornhill Hospital approved". Press and Journal. 13 February 2015. Archived from the original on 22 January 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2015.