Maudsley Hospital
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King's Health Partners South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Denmark Hill, Southwark,, London, England, United Kingdom |
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| Care system | Public NHS |
| Hospital type | Specialist |
| Affiliated university | King's College London |
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| Emergency department | Via hospital A&E |
| Beds | 250 |
| Speciality | Psychiatric hospital |
| History | |
| Founded | 1923 |
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| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
The Maudsley Hospital is a British psychiatric hospital in south London. The Maudsley is the largest mental health training institution in the UK. It is part of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and works in partnership with the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. The hospital was one of the originating institutions in producing the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines. It is part of the King's Health Partners academic health science centre and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health.
The Maudsley story dates from 1907, when once leading Victorian psychiatrist Henry Maudsley offered London County Council £30,000 (apparently earned from lucrative private practice in the West End) to help found a new mental hospital that would:
Maudsley's associate Frederick Walker Mott had proposed the original idea and he conducted the negotiations, with Maudsley remaining anonymous until the offer was accepted. Mott, a neuropathologist, had been influenced by a visit to Emil Kraepelin's psychiatric clinic with attached postgraduate teaching facilities in Munich, Germany. Both Maudsley and Mott (and Kraepelin) were adherents of degeneration theories.
The Council agreed to contribute half the building costs - eventually rising to £70,000 - and then covered the running costs which were almost twice as high per bed as the large asylums. The hospital also incorporated the Central Pathological Laboratory, transferred from Claybury Asylum, run by Mott.
During World War I the building was used to treat war veterans. It was then returned to the control of London County Council and finally opened as the Maudsley Hospital in February 1923. It remains notable that a specific Act of Parliament had to be obtained (1915) to allow the institution to accept voluntary patients without needing to certify them as insane.
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