Kingsway Hospital was a mental health facility in Derby, England.
| Kingsway Hospital | |
|---|---|
 Kingsway Hospital | |
  Shown in Derbyshire | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Derby, Derbyshire, England |
| Coordinates | 52°55′07″N 1°30′48″W / 52.9186°N 1.5134°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | N/A |
| Speciality | Psychiatric Hospital |
| History | |
| Opened | 1888 |
| Closed | 2009 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
History
editThe hospital, which was designed by Benjamin Jacobs using a dual courtyard layout, opened as the Derby Borough Asylum in November 1888.[1][2] An additional block was completed in 1891, a private annex for fee-paying patients, known as Albany House, was added in 1903 and a nurses' home, known as Bramble House, was completed in 1931.[1] It became Derby Mental Hospital in 1912 and Kingsway Hospital in 1938 before joining the National Health Service in 1948.[1]
After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and patient numbers reduced significantly.[1] In the late 1990s eleven men died in unusual circumstances at the hospital: an inquiry led by Sir Richard Rougier found that food and drink had been deliberately withheld.[3] The hospital finally closed in December 2009.[1] Most of the buildings have since been demolished and the site redeveloped by Kier Group as Manor Kingsway.[1] Bramble House, one of the few surviving buildings, was sold for commercial development in 2018.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f "Kingsway Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
- ^ "Major accessions to repositories in 2002 relating to Health and Medicine". National Archives. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
- ^ "Obituary: Sir Richard Rougier". The Guardian. 8 November 2007. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
- ^ "Bramble House, Kingsway, Derby". Novaloca. Retrieved 15 April 2019.