Green Lane Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in the

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district of

Devizes Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman architecture, Norman castle, and received a charter in 1141. The castle was besieged during the Anarchy, a 12th-century ...

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, England. It is managed by the

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) is an NHS mental health trust providing adult mental health and related services in Wiltshire and the former county of Avon, an area centred on Bristol. Trust services The trust is he ...

History

The hospital was built in 1990 in the grounds of

Roundway Hospital Roundway Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in the parish of Roundway near Devizes, Wiltshire, England. It was originally called the Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum and later the Wiltshire County Mental Hospital. It opened in 1851 and closed in ...

, which closed in 1995. In 2008 permission was granted by the Wiltshire PCT to relocate its several local clinics into one centralised

primary care centre Primary care trusts (PCTs) were part of the National Health Service in England from 2001 to 2013. PCTs were largely administrative bodies, responsible for commissioning primary, community and secondary health services from providers. Until 31 May ...

and Green Lane is one of three prospective sites. In 2011 the hospital achieved an excellent rating in an

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Accreditation Service audit. At that time the hospital carried out about 600 electroconvulsive therapy treatments per year. The Daisy Unit, a ward for a small number of adults with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours was added in 2016.

References

External links

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership
{{authority control Psychiatric hospitals in England Hospitals in Wiltshire NHS hospitals in England Devizes