Warneford Hospital

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Warneford Hospital
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Warneford Hospital
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Geography
Location Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°45′03″N1°13′21″W / 51.75083°N 1.22250°W / 51.75083; -1.22250
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Type Teaching
Affiliated university University of Oxford
Services
Emergency department No Accident & Emergency
Beds104
History
Opened1826
Links
Website http://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
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The Warneford Hospital is a hospital providing mental health services at Headington in east Oxford, England. [1] It is managed by the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

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History

The hospital opened as the Oxford Lunatic Asylum in July 1826. [2] It was designed by Richard Ingleman (1777–1838) and built of Headington stone. [3] The name commemorates the philanthropist Samuel Wilson Warneford. [4] It was renamed the Warneford Hospital in 1843 [2] and extended by J.C. Buckler in 1852 and by William Wilkinson in 1877. [3]

The hospital originally charged fees for treatment of middle-class patients with a fund eventually being set up for the care of poor patients. Men and women were originally segregated on different sides of the hospital with this practice continuing into the 1950s. [5]

Notable staff

Notable patients

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