| Royal Edinburgh Hospital | |
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| NHS Lothian | |
 Mackinnon House at the heart of the hospital | |
  Shown in Edinburgh | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| Coordinates | 55°55′39″N3°12′56″W / 55.9274°N 3.2155°W |
| Organisation | |
| Type | Psychiatric hospital |
| History | |
| Opened | 1809 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Other links | List of hospitals in Scotland |
The Royal Edinburgh Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Morningside Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lothian. [1]
The "foundational myth" has it that the hospital was founded by Dr Andrew Duncan, following the death of Robert Fergusson, a Scottish poet who died in 1774 following mental health problems caused by a head injury. [2] Duncan wanted to establish a hospital in Edinburgh that would care for the mentally ill of the city and after launching an appeal in 1792 a grant of £2,000 was approved by Parliament in 1806. [2] A Royal charter was granted by King George III in 1807 and the facility was then established as a public body. [3] A villa in Morningside, along with four acres of land, was then purchased and in 1809 the foundation stone was laid [4] by Lord Provost William Coulter on 8 June 1809. [5] The facility was opened as the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum in 1813. [6]
The asylum originally consisted of a building called East House which accepted only paying patients, but a second building called West House, designed by William Burn and commissioned to intended to accommodate poorer patients, opened in 1842. [7] The inmates of Edinburgh's bedlam were later admitted in 1844. [8]
The asylum's first Physician Superintendent Dr William MacKinnon, who took up the post in 1840, [9] encouraged patients to be active through skills and hobbies they already possessed, including gardening, pig farming, carpentry, sewing, tailoring, poultry keeping, and curling. [8] [7] Shortly thereafter, in 1845, the asylum installed a printing press and the hospital began to produce a monthly magazine, the Morningside Mirror. [7] The hospital received Royal Patronage in 1841 and became the Royal Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum. [10]
The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 and the Andrew Duncan Clinic opened in 1965. [11] A 15 tonne work known as Abraham was carved in granite by sculptor Ronald Rae in the grounds of the hospital in 1982 [12] and the Rivers Centre, a clinic for the treatment of Posttraumatic stress disorder established in memory of the pioneering psychiatrist William Rivers, opened in 1997. [13]
A modern hospital on the same site was procured under the Scottish government's non-profit distributing model in January 2015. [14] [15] The first phase of the new hospital was built by Morrison Construction at a cost of £45 million and completed in January 2017. [16]
The Pinel Memorial was erected in 1926 to commemorate the centenary of the death of Philippe Pinel, a pioneer of psychiatric care. It includes six bronze medallion heads to other principal figures in improving conditions: William Tuke, Florence Nightingale, Robert Gardiner Hill, Andrew Duncan, Dorothea Lynde Dix and Campbell Clark. [17]
Notable staff have included:
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