Maudsley Hospital

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**Maudsley Hospital**
South London and Maudsley NHS Trust
Location

Front of the Maudsley Hospital
Place	Denmark Hill, Southwark, London, England, (UK)
Organisation
Care System	Public NHS
Hospital Type	Specialist
Affiliated Med.Sch.	Unknown
Services
Emergency Dept.	Psychiatric Emergency Clinic
Beds	136
Speciality	Psychiatric hospital
History
Founded	1923
Links
Website	Trust Homepage
See also	Hospitals in England

The Maudsley Hospital in Denmark Hill, Camberwell, South London is unique as a psychiatric hospital in that it was always intended to be a centre of treatment and research rather than confinement and "asylum".

[edit] History

Now part of the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM) the hospital derives its origins from 1907, when Dr Henry Maudsley offered London County Council £30,000 (subsequently increased to £40,000) to help found a new mental hospital that would:

be exclusively for early and acute cases,
have an out-patients' clinic,
provide for teaching and research.

World War I intervened and the Hospital was not actually opened until 1923, but it is notable that a specific Act of Parliament had to be obtained (1915) to allow the institution to accept voluntary patients.

[edit] Current hospital

The Maudsley today continues to offer in-patient and community mental health care to local people in Southwark and Lambeth and nationally across the UK. Sharing a site with the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London it is also a major contributor to both psychiatric research and the training of nursing, medical and psychology staff in psychiatry. As part of SLaM it also enjoys close links with Bethlem Royal Hospital - the original "Bedlam".