Maudsley Hospital
South London and Maudsley NHS Trust

Front of the Maudsley Hospital
Location
Place	Denmark Hill, Southwark, London, England, (UK)
Organisation
Care System	Public NHS
Hospital Type	Specialist
Affiliated University	King's College London
Services
Emergency Dept.	Psychiatric Emergency Clinic
Beds	250
Speciality	Psychiatric hospital
History
Founded	1923
Links
Website	Trust Homepage
See also	Hospitals in England

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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: Henry Maudsley (1835–1918) was a pioneering English psychiatrist. ...

1. be exclusively for early and acute cases,
2. have an out-patients' clinic,
3. 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. Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nikolay II Aleksey Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Robert Nivelle Herbert H. Asquith D. Lloyd George Sir Douglas Haig Sir John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna...

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". The Borough or Southwark is an area of the London Borough of Southwark situated 1. ... Lambeth is a place in the London Borough of Lambeth. ... Front doors of the Institute of Psychiatry // Introduction The Institute of Psychiatry (IOP) is a research institution dedicated to discovering what causes mental health problems and diseases of the brain. ... Kings College London is the largest college of the University of London and one of a number of university institutions founded in England in the early 19th century: only the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have royal charters predating that of Kings. ... The Bethlem Royal Hospital of London, which has been variously known as St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlem Hospital, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is the worlds oldest psychiatric hospital. ...

External links

• South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
• Middlesex University's mental health history timeline
• Institute of psychiatry, London

• Aerial photo of Maudsley Hospital. Other map and aerial photo sources.