State Hospital

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The State Hospital
State Hospitals Board for Scotland
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Entrance to the State Hospital
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Shown in South Lanarkshire
Geography
Location Carstairs, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Coordinates 55°41′43″N3°39′16″W / 55.695395°N 3.654545°W / 55.695395; -3.654545
Organisation
Care system NHS Scotland
Type Psychiatric
Services
Emergency department No
Links
Website www.tsh.scot.nhs.uk
Lists Hospitals in Scotland

The State Hospital (also known as Carstairs Hospital, or simply Carstairs) [1] is a psychiatric hospital in the village of Carstairs, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It provides care and treatment in conditions of high security for patients from Scotland and Northern Ireland. The hospital is managed by the State Hospitals Board for Scotland which is a public body accountable to the First Minister of Scotland through the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates. It is a Special Health Board, part of the NHS Scotland and the only hospital of its kind within Scotland.

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History

Carstairs Hospital was constructed between 1936 and 1939. Although it was planned and financed as a facility for "mental defectives", it was first used as a military hospital, during the Second World War. The War Office relinquished control of the hospital in 1948, when it became the State Institution for Mental Defectives. On 1 October 1957 there was a large transfer of 90 criminally insane prisoners from the criminal lunatic department at HM Prison Perth to Carstairs, and this new combined unit became The State Mental Hospital. [2]

The State Hospitals (Scotland) Act 1994 enabled management of the hospital to be transferred from the Secretary of State for Scotland to NHS Scotland, coming under the control of the State Hospitals Board for Scotland. [3] [4]

A redevelopment of the hospital was approved by the Scottish Government in September 2007. Construction began in April 2008 and the new hospital facilities were officially opened on 26 June 2012. [5]

Security

The hospital has an alarm system that is activated if any patient escapes to alert people in the vicinity, including those in the neighbouring town of Lanark, and local villages such as Ravenstruther and Forth. The system is tested on the third Thursday of every month at 1300hrs when the all clear siren sounds. [6]

One break out happened in 1976, when two patients, Thomas McCulloch and Robert Mone, murdered a nurse, a patient and a police officer with axes in an escape attempt. [7] [8]

Controversies

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References

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  3. "State Hospitals (Scotland) Act 1994", legislation.gov.uk , The National Archives, 1994 c. 16
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