Lanchester Road Hospital


Lanchester Road Hospital is a mental health facility located in County Durham, England, and lies on a large site just north west of Durham city. It is managed by the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation NHS Trust.

History

The hospital has its origins in the Earl's House Industrial School founded as a vocational residential school for children with special academic needs in the 1890s. After the school closed in 1922, the site developed as the Earl's House Sanatorium in the 1930s and then as a psychiatric facility known as the Earl's House Hospital in the 1960s.
The hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2008. It was announced that the new facility, to be known as the Lanchester Road Hospital, will "... provide adult mental health and learning disability services and has been designed to provide people with a safe, homely and therapeutic environment." The new facility, built at a cost of £17.9 million, opened in 2010.

Services

There are seven wards at Lancaster Road Hospital: Bek - learning disability assessment, treatment and rehabilitation services Farnham - adult inpatient services, male Harland - low secure forensic long term treatment ward for male adults with a learning disability Langley - low secure forensic rehabilitation ward for male adults with a learning disability Ramsey - learning disability assessment, treatment and rehabilitation services Roseberry, Bowes Lyon Unit - older people's assessment and treatment inpatient services and Tunstall - adult inpatient services, female. Appleton House is the home of the North of England Commissioning Support Unit and provides faith and chaplaincy services as well as pharmacy services.