Fieldhead Hospital

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Fieldhead Hospital
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Geography
Location Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
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Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Hospital type Specialist
Affiliated university University of Huddersfield
Services
Emergency department N/A
Beds 208
Speciality Psychiatric hospital
Links
Website www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk
Lists Hospitals in England

Fieldhead Hospital is a Psychiatric and Learning disability Hospital in Wakefield, United Kingdom. It is part of South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital was formerly operated by Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health Trust.[1]

Wards and services

Fieldhead Hospital provides the following wards and services:[2]

  • Adult psychological therapies service
  • Bretton Centre (male low-secure forensic mental health centre) - 38 beds
  • Briarfields (Electroconvulsive therapy and Clozapine clinic)
  • Care Home Liaison Team
  • Chantry unit (elderly mental health treatment and assessment ward) - 16 Beds
  • Memory services
  • Newhaven (low-secure learning disability ward) - 16 Beds
  • Newton Lodge (medium-secure forensic mental health hospital) - 90 Beds
  • Outpatients
  • Priory 2 (mental health ward) - 22 Beds
  • Specialist forensic outreach team
  • Trinity 1 (Psychiatric intensive-care unit) - 14 Beds
  • Trinity 2 (male inpatient mental health ward) - 22 Beds

Mental Health Museum

The Mental Health Museum (previously known as the Stephen Beaumont Museum of Mental Health) is located at Fieldhead Hospital. It contains artefacts from and exhibits on the history of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum.[3] Artefacts include restraining equipment, a padded cell, photographs, medical and surgical equipment, and documents. There is also a scale model of the original 1818 Stanley Royd Hospital, which was the museum's original location until the hospital closed in 1995.[4][5]

See also

References

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