Calderstones Hospital is a mental health facility near to

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, England. It is managed by

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust runs a specialist mental health trust and provides learning disabilities, addiction management, acquired brain injury services and the provision of community nursing and therapies services in The City of Liver ...

History

The hospital is located on a site known as Clay Fields which previously formed part of the

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estate. It was designed by Henry Littler in the Neo-Georgian style using a dual pavilion layout and, although commissioned, in 1904, as the Sixth Lancashire County Asylum, it actually opened as Queen Mary's Military Hospital in April 1915 during the

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. Some 56,800 allied servicemen were treated at the hospital between 14 April 1915 and 31 June 1920. After the war the hospital re-opened as a mental health facility, known as Calderstones Hospital, in June 1921. After the introduction of

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in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and, although its closure has been announced, union leaders have advised that the decision is unlikely to be implemented before 2020. As of June 2019 it was the only NHS hospital in the United Kingdom to specialise in learning disabilities.

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