Stratheden Hospital

Stratheden Hospital
NHS Fife
Geography
Location Cupar, Fife,
 Scotland
Organisation
Care system NHS
Funding Public hospital
Hospital type Community hospital
History
Founded 1866
Links
Website www.nhsfife.org/stratheden/
Other links List of hospitals in Scotland

Stratheden Hospital is currently a small community hospital in Cupar, Fife which was originally called Fife and Kinross District Asylum. Its name was changed to Stratheden Hospital in 1948. It was built in 1866 and redeveloped in 1896, 1905, 1960-1975 and 2015-2016. It became a centre of excellence in Child and Family Psychiatry from the 1960s. In the 21st-century, it caters for psychiatric health.[1][2]

History

When the hospital was opened on 1 July 1866, it was known as the Fife and Kinross District Asylum.[3] 159 patients were recorded on the roster although it was built to accommodate up to 200. The first chief physician, John Batty Tuke, pioneered the hospitals "open door" policy and helped change traditional methods of psychiatric care. Due to eventual overcrowding, the hospital was extended in 1896. Costing over £20,000, the extension increased the patient capacity to 600 and a further two new hospital wings were also built in 1905 due to the increasing number of patients.[2]

The creation of the NHS in 1948 completely re-organised the British health system and its hospitals. With the introduction of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947 the name of the hospital changed from 'The Fife and Kinross District Asylum' to 'Stratheden Hospital' on 7 July 1948.[2]

A leading Child and Family Psychiatry Department

1960 saw the arrival of Dr Douglas Haldane, an energetic and recently appointed young consultant child psychiatrist.[4] He had the novel idea of calling his department "Child and Family Psychiatry", a name that was to catch on elsewhere. His unit was located at 'Playfield House' and was opened in the grounds of the hospital. As the label implied, it catered for children, adolescents and their families.[5] Eventually, in 1975 two purpose-built buildings were set aside for the in-patient care for whole family groups, along the lines of the Cassel Hospital, south of the border.[6][7] The other consultant child psychiatrist appointed to the hospital was Dr Simon Lindsay, who had been a trainee of the distinguished child analyst Melanie Klein. Lindsay was said to have been the only direct Kleinian in the whole of Scotland.[8]

Recent developments

Plans for a new Intensive psychiatric care unit at Stratheden were approved in 2014 and construction began in 2015. The extension cost £4.4 million and includes a communal lounge, rooms for rehabilitative and therapeutic activities, access to an outdoor courtyard, private meeting rooms for visits from families or visitors, an IT suite and eight new patient en-suite rooms.[9] It was opened in May 2016.[10]

Wards and Facilities

Stratheden Hospital has nine wards:[1]

  • Cairnie House Day Hospital
  • Dunino
  • Bayview
  • Elmview, built in 2009[9]
  • Lindores
  • Intensive psychiatric care unit (IPCU)
  • Radernie Low-Secure Unit, replaced Radernie Ward in 2013[9]
  • Lomond
  • Muirview, built in 2010[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Stratheden Hospital". NHSfife. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Records of Stratheden Hospital". Fifedirect. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Doody, G. A.; Beveridge, A.; Johnstone, E. C. (September 1996). "Poor and mad: a study of patients admitted to the Fife and Kinross District Asylum between 1874 and 1899". Psychological Medicine. 26 (5): 887–897. doi:10.1017/S0033291700035236.
  4. ↑ "Obituary: Douglas Haldane". Herald. 25 August 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
  5. ↑ Haldane, J. D., McCluskey, U. & Peacey, M. 'A Residential facility for families in Scotland: developments in prospect and retrospect'. International Journal of Family Psychiatry, 1, 357-372, 1980
  6. ↑ Letter from Dr. Haldane in response to Dr. Roger Kennedy on the subject of Families in an In-patient setting, alluding to the Cassel Hospital. retrieved 27 December 2016.
  7. ↑ Obituaries: Douglas Haldane BMJ 2012; 345 doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e6616 (Published 05 October 2012) retrieved 26 December 2016
  8. ↑ Hugh Morton, witness to the Witness Seminar on the History of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1960-1990, (2009) http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_196525_en.pdf
  9. 1 2 3 4 "Replacement of the Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit". NHSfife. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  10. ↑ Smith, Craig (18 May 2016). "Stunning new £4.4 million psychiatric care unit opens doors at Stratheden Hospital". The Courier. Retrieved 29 September 2016.

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