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Rampton Secure Hospital is a high secure psychiatric hospital in the village of Woodbeck between Retford and Rampton in Nottinghamshire, England. Retford is a market town in northeastern Nottinghamshire, England in the district of Bassetlaw. ...
Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
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A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ...
A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ...
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The emergency department (ED), sometimes termed the emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW), accident & emergency (A&E) department or casualty department is a hospital or primary care department that provides initial treatment to patients with a broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries, some of which may be life-threatening and...
A psychiatric hospital (also called at various places and times, mental hospital, mental ward, sanitarium or asylum) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ...
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Retford is a market town in northeastern Nottinghamshire, England in the district of Bassetlaw. ...
Rampton, Nottinghamshire lies in the Trent valley north of Nottingham. ...
Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
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Rampton Hospital houses about 400 patients who have been detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 under one of these classifications: The Mental Health Act 1983 (1983 c. ...
- Mental illness
- Psychopathic (personality) disorder
- (Severe) mental impairment, which is the legal term for what would now be called learning disability.
Rampton Hospital provides a national service for patients with a learning disability, Deaf male patients and women requiring high secure care. It also provides services for men suffering from mental illness and personality disorder. The Hospital is also a pilot site for a service caring for men with severe and dangerous personailty disorders. In the United States and Canada, the term learning disability is used to refer to psychological and neurological conditions that affect a persons communicative capacities and potential to be taught effectively. ...
About a quarter of the patients have had no significant contact with the criminal justice system, but have been detained under the Mental Health Act and are considered to require treatment in conditions of high security owing to their "dangerous, violent or criminal propensities". Others have been convicted of an offence by the courts and either ordered to be detained in hospital or subsequently transferred there from prison.
It has a staff of about 1900. Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ...
History In former times the area which is now the hospital was occupied by open land called "Rampton Field", which was a big common. In England and Wales, a common is a piece of land over which other people -- often neighbouring landowners -- could exercise one of a number of traditional rights, such as allowing their cattle to graze upon it. ...
Rampton Hospital was built in 1912 as an overflow hospital for Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire. Broadmoor Hospital is a maximum secure psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne in Berkshire. ...
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On Tuesday 22 May 1979 Yorkshire Television showed a program "Rampton, The Secret Hospital", which was a severe exposé of mistreatment of Rampton patients by staff; it is listed in a "top ten" of television programs which caused serious effects, and it got an International Emmy. A follow-up television report a few weeks later said that its effect within Rampton Hospital was a few scapegoat prosecutions, and things continuing as before except that no staff member could trust another staff member not to be an informer. Yorkshire Television is the ITV contractor for Yorkshire, England, and the surrounding areas. ...
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An exposé is an article or book intended to reveal shocking or surprising information. ...
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The Scapegoat by William Holman Hunt, 1854. ...
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Around the 1980's the open ground between its gate and the nearest hospital buildings were built over with a housing estate for its staff. A housing estate is a medium-to-low density residential area, usually part of a suburb of a town or city in a developed country. ...
In February 2000 Rampton Hospital was awarded a Charter Mark award. This government scheme was designed to both reward excellence and encourage constant quality improvement. It is very much focused on the quality of the service provided to users; in Rampton Hospital this included not only patients but also visitors and the general public. A Charter mark is an award demonstrating the achievement of national standard for excellence in customer service in UK public sector organisations. ...
In April 2001 Rampton Hospital became part of the new Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. The Trust provides mental health and learning disability services including:
- Community forensic service to Nottinghamshire
- Medium-secure services provided by Arnold Lodge and Wathwood Hospital to patients from the Trent region
- A high-secure service at Rampton Hospital for all NHS regions
A.I.M. (Artists In Mind) Many patients who could benefit from being able to use their time in creative activities whilst in hospital find a lack of opportunity is available. It is alleged that this is due to imbalance between in the hospital's priorites: in mental hospitals generally, attention to providing adequate treatment is sacrificed to the overriding concern with security. // A.I.M., or Artists In Mind, is a charity based in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. ...
A psychiatric hospital (also called a mental hospital or asylum) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ...
The community arts charity A.I.M. (Artists In Mind), based in Huddersfield, Yorkshire was first established in a partnership between Rampton Hospital and Leeds University. It works with Rampton's patients and other survivors of spiritual and emotional crisis. // A.I.M., or Artists In Mind, is a charity based in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. ...
Huddersfield is a large town in England near the confluence of the River Colne and the River Holme. ...
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Currently, in 2006, two groups of patients in Rampton Hospital, one female group and one male group (only single-sex interaction is permitted) have been working on a sculpture project facilitated by A.I.M. founder John Holt, and overseen by two nationally-acclaimed artists, the Holmfirth sculptor Brendan Hesmondhalgh and Blackburn-based sculptor Halima Cassell. This is intended to produce new site-specific works that will enhance the hospital environment. Holmfirth is a picturesque small, rural, town located in the Holme Valley in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, England. ...
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With regard to the artwork of patients at Rampton and other mental institutions, an A.I.M. spokesperson has voiced concerns that "patients' work is often confiscated, destroyed, obstructed, and/or denigrated by hospital establishments. This is seen to hinder the creative and spiritual processes of development and healing. It is also disempowering to patients that they can have little or no intellectual property rights over their work, although much of their artwork would be valued highly in a contemporary art scene which regards so-called Outsider Art as a collectible and trendy commodity, and, more seriously, as exploring areas of the human psyche which few people ever experience to such extremes." Adolf Wölflis Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain, 1910 The term Outsider Art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for Art Brut (which literally translates as Raw Art or Rough Art), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created...
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Notable patients of Rampton Hospital Beverley Allitt (born 4 October 1968), dubbed the Angel of Death [1], was an English paediatric nurse who was convicted of killing four children and injuring nine others, in 1991, on the childrens ward of Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire where she worked. ...
Ian Kevin Huntley (born 31 January 1974 in Grimsby, England) is a former school caretaker, who in 2003 was convicted of murdering two schoolgirls - Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman - in the case known as the Soham murders. ...
Location Rampton Hospital is 2.3 km = 1.4 miles WSW of Rampton village, at Ordnance Survey grid reference SK 775 776 GB Grid. Map at this link. Part of an Ordnance Survey map at 1 inch to the mile scale from 1945 Ordnance Survey (OS) is an executive agency of the United Kingdom government. ...
References - ^ "Beverly Allitt: Suffer the Children". The Crime Library (10 May 2000). Retrieved on 2007-02-06.
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