Arnold Lodge is a medium secure

psychiatric hospital Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, behavioral health hospitals, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, dissociative ...

situated in

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, England, run by

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, based in Nottinghamshire, England, manages the UK’s largest and most integrated Forensic High Secure facility Rampton Hospital near Retford (which covers specialist services such as the High Sec ...

History

The hospital was opened in July 1983 and an extension with 30 extra beds was opened in 2007.

Services

Arnold Lodge receives referrals from courts, prisons, the probation service, social services, high secure hospitals, and other mental health units for

forensic psychiatry Forensic psychiatry is a subspeciality of psychiatry and is related to criminology. It encompasses the interface between law and psychiatry. According to the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, it is defined as "a subspecialty of psychiat ...

assessment and/or treatment. The patients are mainly mentally disordered offenders or others with similar needs. There are seven wards: two male rehabilitation wards (Thornton and Foxton wards), one male acute/admission ward (Rutland ward), two male

personality disorder Personality disorders (PD) are a class of mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those accepted by the individual's culture ...

wards (Cannock and Ridgeway wards), and two female wards (Tamar and Coniston). Coniston ward is for women who require an enhanced level of care within medium security. This service will be one of three national pilots for a model of service known as WEMSS (Women’s Enhanced Medium Secure Services).

References

External links

Arnold Lodge
on Nottinghamshire Healthcare website {{authority control Hospital buildings completed in 1983 Psychiatric hospitals in England NHS hospitals in England Leicester Hospitals in Leicestershire 1983 establishments in England Hospitals established in 1983