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[199] [200] He was detained in high-security hospitals, including Broadmoor, under mental health legislation. [201] [202] Williams was released from hospital in 1994, after a mental health tribunal found he was no longer a risk to the public. [201]
Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospital in Bromley, London. Its famous history has inspired several horror books, films, and TV series, most notably Bedlam, a 1946 film with Boris Karloff. The hospital is part of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
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). [12] It 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.
Oakwood Hospital in Barming Heath near Maidstone, England was a psychiatric hospital founded in 1833 as the Kent County Lunatic Asylum. Following transfer of services to Maidstone Hospital , Oakwood closed in 1994 and was then developed as a residential estate known as St Andrew's Park.
Ashworth Hospital is a high-security psychiatric hospital in Maghull, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Liverpool. It is a part of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust , catering to patients with psychiatric health needs that require treatment in conditions of high security.
In 2018 the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services at the hospital was featured in a BBC Two documentary entitled Girls on the Edge.The programme followed three families whose adolescent daughters had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983 to protect them from harming themselves.
The mental health trust where a "toxic culture" saw patients abused in 2022 has been rated as inadequate again despite some improvements. The secure unit the Edenfield Centre in Prestwich, Greater ...
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. [1] The hospital was one of the originating institutions in producing the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines.