Rampton Secure Hospital
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| Rampton Secure Hospital Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust |
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| Location | |
|---|---|
| Place | Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, (UK) |
| Organisation | |
| Care System | Public NHS |
| Hospital Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Emergency Dept. | No Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | about 370 |
| Speciality | Psychiatric hospital (secure mental hospital) |
| History | |
| Founded | 1912 |
| Links | |
| Website | Trust Homepage |
| See also | Hospitals in the United Kingdom |
Rampton Secure Hospital is a high security psychiatric hospital near the village of Woodbeck between Retford and Rampton in Nottinghamshire, England.
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[edit] Background
Rampton Hospital houses about 400 patients who have been detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 under one of these classifications:
- Mental illness
- Psychopathic (personality) disorder
- (Severe) mental impairment, which is the legal term for what would now be called learning disability.
Rampton Hospital provides the national service for patients with a learning disability, women and deaf people requiring high security care. It also provides services for men suffering from mental illness and personality disorder. The hospital has a Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder Unit opened in 2004 as part of a national DSPD pilot (the Peaks Unit).
About a quarter of the patients have had no significant contact with the criminal justice system, but have been detained under the Mental Health Act and are considered to require treatment in conditions of high security owing to their "dangerous, violent or criminal propensities". Others have been convicted of an offence by the courts and either ordered to be detained in hospital or subsequently transferred there from prison.
It has a staff of about 1700.
[edit] History
In former times the area which is now the hospital was occupied by open land called "Rampton Field", which was a big common.
Rampton Hospital was built in 1912 as an overflow hospital for Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire.
On Tuesday 22 May 1979 Yorkshire Television showed a programme "Rampton, The Secret Hospital", which was a severe exposé of mistreatment of Rampton patients by staff; it is listed in a "top ten" of television programmes which caused serious effects, and it got an International Emmy. A follow-up television report a few weeks later said that its effect within Rampton Hospital was a few scapegoat prosecutions, and things continuing as before except that no staff member could trust another staff member not to be an informer.
Around the 1980s the open ground between its gate and the nearest hospital buildings were built over with a housing estate for its staff.
In February 2000 Rampton Hospital was awarded a Charter Mark award. This government scheme was designed to both reward excellence and encourage constant quality improvement. It is very much focused on the quality of the service provided to users; in Rampton Hospital this included not only patients but also visitors and the general public.
In April 2001 Rampton Hospital became part of the new Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. The Trust provides mental health and learning disability services including:
- Community forensic service to Nottinghamshire
- Medium-secure services provided by Arnold Lodge and Wathwood Hospital to patients from the Trent region
- A high-security service at Rampton Hospital for all NHS regions
In May 2008 a group of patients lost their High Court battle seeking to overturn the rule banning inmates from smoking within the hospital. [1].
[edit] A.I.M. (Artists In Mind)
- See also A.I.M. (Artists In Mind).
The arts charity A.I.M. (Artists In Mind), based in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire was first established in a partnership between Rampton Hospital and the University of Leeds.
In 2006 and 2007, patients worked on a sculpture project facilitated by A.I.M. founder John Holt, and lead by two nationally-acclaimed artists, the Holmfirth sculptor Brendan Hesmondhalgh and Blackburn-based sculptor Halima Cassell. This has produced new site-specific works that will enhance the hospital environment.
[edit] Notable patients of Rampton Hospital
[edit] Location
Rampton Hospital is in Woodbeck, Nottinghamshire, 2.3 km = 1.4 miles westsouthwest of Rampton village, at Ordnance Survey grid reference SK 775 776 GB Grid.
[edit] References
[edit] See also
- Broadmoor and Ashworth are the two other high-security mental hospitals in England.
- Carstairs State Hospital is the equivalent facility for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
