St Ann's Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in the

Canford Cliffs Canford Cliffs is a suburb of Poole in Dorset, England. The neighbourhood lies on the English Channel coast midway between Poole and Bournemouth. To the southwest is Sandbanks which has some of the highest property values in the world; with C ...

area of

Poole Poole () is a coastal town and seaport on the south coast of England in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area in Dorset, England. The town is east of Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester and adjoins Bournemouth to the east ...

, Dorset. It is managed by

Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust provides community and mental health services across Dorset. History The Dorset Health Care NHS Trust was established in November 1991, taking over responsibility from East Dorset Health Autho ...

. It is a Grade II*

listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...

History

The hospital, which was designed by

Robert Weir Schultz Robert Weir Schultz (26 July 1860 – 29 April 1951), later Robert Weir Schultz Weir and known as R. W. S. Weir, was a Scottish Arts and Crafts architect, artist, landscape designer and furniture designer. He did much work on the Isle of Bute ...

, was built between 1909 and 1912. A major expansion of the site involving the construction of a new ward block providing 30 extra beds at a cost of £14 million was completed in October 2013. The

Care Quality Commission The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom. It was established in 2009 to regulate and inspect health and social care providers in England. It ...

reported that the hospital team had met all the necessary standards during an inspection in October 2013.

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History

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