New Craigs Psychiatric Hospital is a hospital situated in Leachkin, on the western outskirts of

Inverness Inverness (; from the gd, Inbhir Nis , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness"; sco, Innerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. Histori ...

, Scotland. It is managed by

NHS Highland NHS Highland is one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland. Geographically, it is the largest Health Board, covering an area of from Kintyre in the south-west to Caithness in the north-east, serving a population of 320,000 people. In 2016–1 ...

History

The facility is a 234-bed healthcare campus that provides mental health and learning disability accommodation. New Craigs, which replaced

Craig Dunain Hospital Craig Dunain Hospital was a mental health facility near Inverness in Scotland. The former hospital is a Category B listed building. History The hospital, which was designed by James Matthews, opened as the Inverness District Asylum in May 1864. ...

and Craig Phadrig Hospital both of which were both located nearby, opened in July 2000. The hospital was the first psychiatric facility to be funded under a

private finance initiative The private finance initiative (PFI) was a United Kingdom government procurement policy aimed at creating "public–private partnerships" (PPPs) where private firms are contracted to complete and manage public projects. Initially launched in 199 ...

scheme in Scotland. It was built and managed by Robertson Group, with NHS Highland repaying for the cost over a 25-year contract. Under the PFI arrangement the facility cost £16.5 million to build but the total cost that NHS Highland is expected to bear is estimated at £106 million.

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