Rampton Hospital
| Rampton Secure Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | |
| Geography | |
| Location |
Rampton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Hospital type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | about 390 |
| Speciality |
Psychiatric hospital (secure mental hospital) |
| History | |
| Founded | 1912 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in the United Kingdom |
Rampton Secure Hospital is a high security psychiatric hospital near the village of Woodbeck between Retford and Rampton in the Bassetlaw District of Nottinghamshire, England. It is situated 2.3 km (1.4 mi) west-south-west of Rampton village, at Ordnance Survey grid reference SK 775 776 GB Grid.
Rampton Hospital houses about 400 patients who have been detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 under the criteria of "mental disorder" (any disorder or disability of mind).
Rampton Hospital has a staff of about 2,000 and provides the national services for patients with a learning disability, women and deaf men requiring high security care. It also provides services for men suffering from mental illness and personality disorders. The hospital has an 'Enhanced Personality Disorder' unit originally opened in 2004 as part of a national pilot for 'Dangerous and Severe Personality Disordered' men, the Peaks Unit, which is the only remaining service of its kind in Britain.
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. Among admissions criteria is the requirement that patients must present a "grave and immediate danger" to the public.
Rampton Hospital opened in 1912 as an overflow facility for Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire. The grounds occupy a former large common known as "Rampton Field".
Housing for the staff was built mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. There were several football pitches, a rugby football pitch, a cricket field, shop, staff club/pub, disco, library, tennis courts, free indoor heated swimming pool, bowls club. All of this was built for the staff; the housing was rented and only available for the staff. Staff had to leave the houses when they retired. This ended in the 1980s, and residents were allowed to stay on in the houses after retirement. In the 1990s staff were given the right to buy their houses from the Crown. Houses were then bought at a discounted rate depending on how long the resident had worked at Rampton: the longer, the cheaper the house was to buy. This staff housing area is or was called Woodbeck (to be distinguished from a nearby village called Woodbeck).
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