Herdmanflat Hospital | |
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NHS Lothian | |
Geography | |
Location | Haddington, Scotland |
Coordinates | 55°57′36″N 2°47′12″W / 55.95999°N 2.78672°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS |
Type | Psychiatric hospital |
History | |
Opened | 1866 |
Links | |
Other links | List of hospitals in Scotland |
Herdmanflat Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in Aberlady Road, Haddington, Scotland. It was operated by NHS Lothian. [1]
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]