Warneford Hospital | |
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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust | |
![]() Warneford Hospital | |
Geography | |
Location | Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 51°45′03″N 1°13′21″W / 51.75083°N 1.22250°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public NHS |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | University of Oxford |
Services | |
Emergency department | No Accident & Emergency |
Beds | 104 |
History | |
Opened | 1826 |
Links | |
Website | http://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
The Warneford Hospital is a hospital providing mental health services at Headington in east Oxford, England. [1] It is managed by the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
The hospital opened as the Oxford Lunatic Asylum in July 1826. [2] It was designed by Richard Ingleman (1777–1838) and built of Headington stone. [3] The name commemorates the philanthropist Samuel Wilson Warneford. [4] It was renamed the Warneford Hospital in 1843 [2] and extended by J.C. Buckler in 1852 and by William Wilkinson in 1877. [3]
The hospital originally charged fees for treatment of middle-class patients with a fund eventually being set up for the care of poor patients. Men and women were originally segregated on different sides of the hospital with this practice continuing into the 1950s. [5]
Warneford Hospital was extensively mentioned in the book Dark Clouds Gather written by Katy Sara Culling about mental illness and published in 2011. [6]
Warneford Hospital | |
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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust | |
![]() Warneford Hospital | |
Geography | |
Location | Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 51°45′03″N 1°13′21″W / 51.75083°N 1.22250°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public NHS |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | University of Oxford |
Services | |
Emergency department | No Accident & Emergency |
Beds | 104 |
History | |
Opened | 1826 |
Links | |
Website | http://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
The Warneford Hospital is a hospital providing mental health services at Headington in east Oxford, England. [1] It is managed by the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
The hospital opened as the Oxford Lunatic Asylum in July 1826. [2] It was designed by Richard Ingleman (1777–1838) and built of Headington stone. [3] The name commemorates the philanthropist Samuel Wilson Warneford. [4] It was renamed the Warneford Hospital in 1843 [2] and extended by J.C. Buckler in 1852 and by William Wilkinson in 1877. [3]
The hospital originally charged fees for treatment of middle-class patients with a fund eventually being set up for the care of poor patients. Men and women were originally segregated on different sides of the hospital with this practice continuing into the 1950s. [5]
Warneford Hospital was extensively mentioned in the book Dark Clouds Gather written by Katy Sara Culling about mental illness and published in 2011. [6]