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Herdmanflat Hospital

Herdmanflat Hospital

Hospital in Haddington, Scotland

Herdmanflat Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in Aberlady Road, Haddington, Scotland. It was operated by NHS Lothian.[1]

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History

The hospital was located at a site which was once known as Herdmanflat Farm.[2] The facility was designed by Peddie and Kinnear and opened as the East Lothian District Asylum in 1866.[3][4] A dining hall was added in 1890 and several villas were added in 1908.[4] It joined the National Health Service in 1948.[3]

After the Garleton Unit at Herdmanflat Hospital had been upgraded at a cost of £250,000, mental health services transferred from Edenhall Hospital in Musselburgh. This created a "one-stop shop for older people's mental health services" for the whole of East Lothian at Herdmanflat Hospital.[5]

In 2014 NHS Lothian proposed creating a community hospital on the site of the old Roodlands General Hospital.[6] After all services moved to the new East Lothian Community Hospital, the Herdmanflat Hospital closed in 2020.[7][8]

References

  1. [1]
    "Herdmanflat Hospital". NHS Lothian. 1 June 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
  2. [2]
    "Herdmanflat Hospital". Lothian Health Services Archive. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  3. [3]
    "Herdmanflat Hospital". National archives. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  4. [4]
    "Herdmanflat Hospital". Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  5. [5]
    "New £250k mental health unit at Herdmanflat". East Lothian Courier. 20 October 2011. Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  6. [6]
    "Late 2017 pencilled in for new community hospital". East Lothian Courier. 8 May 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  7. [7]
    "'Extra-care' housing plan for Haddington's Herdmanflat Hospital". East Lothian Courier. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  8. [8]
    "New community hospital opened its doors in East Lothian". Edinburgh Evening News. 5 October 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2021.


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