{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox hospital | name = Lanchester Road Hospital | org_group = Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust | image = Lanchesterroadhospital.jpg | caption= Lanchester Road Hospital | logo = | location = Durham | region = County Durham | state = England | country = UK | healthcare = NHS | type = Learning Disabilities, Psychiatric | speciality = | emergency = No | affiliation= | beds = | founded = | closed = <!-- optional --> | website = {{URL|http://www.tewv.nhs.uk/}} | other_links = <!-- optional --> }} '''Lanchester Road Hospital''' is a mental health facility located in County Durham, England, and lies on a large site just north west of Durham city. It is managed by the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust.<ref name="trust">{{Cite web |title=Lanchester Road Hospital |url=https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/locations/lanchester-road-hospital/ |publisher=Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust |accessdate=22 March 2022}}</ref> ==History==
The hospital has its origins in ''Earl's House Industrial School'', which was opened as a vocational residential school by the magistrates of County Durham in 1885 on the former site of Earl's House Farm.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Earl's House School |url=https://dcc-live-s3.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/EarlsH_1.pdf |access-date=22 March 2022 |website=Durham County Council}}</ref> The school was declared unfit for purpose in the 1920s and, in 1928, Earl's House Sanatorium was established on the site.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=1271&page=18|title=Details: Earls House Hospital, Durham|publisher=National Archives|access-date=22 March 2022}}</ref>
The sanatorium treated children with tuberculosis until 1953, when it became Earl's House Hospital - caring for people with mental health issues and learning disabilities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Earl's House School (now Earl's House Hospital), Lanchester Road, Durham |url=https://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/story/2921/ |access-date=25 November 2016 |website=Durham at war}}</ref> The hospital was used as an annex to ''Prudhoe and Monkton Hospital'' to accommodate about 120 children with learning difficulties in 1966.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hospital Management, Planning and Equipment - Volume 29 - Page 269 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8p7nAAAAMAAJ&q=%22earls+house+hospital%22 |access-date=24 March 2022}}</ref> In 2003 it was announced that more than 50 patients were being moved from "outdated villas" at the hospital into "more modern accommodation with specially-adapted housing."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hospital delay setback for mental health |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7039938.hospital-delay-setback-mental-health/ |access-date=23 March 2022 |website=Northern Echo}}</ref>
The hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2008. It was announced that the new facility, named Lanchester Road Hospital, would provide adult mental health and learning disability services in "a safe, homely and therapeutic environment."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Contracts signed to build healthcare developments 29 May 2008 |url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2304901.Contracts_signed_to_build_healthcare_developments/ |access-date=25 November 2016 |website=The Northern Echo}}</ref> The new facility, built at a cost of £17.9 million, opened in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MP's praise for new hospital 11 March 2010 |url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/5052678.MP_s_praise_for_new_hospital/ |access-date=25 November 2016 |website=The Northern Echo}}</ref>
==Services== There are seven wards at Lanchester Road Hospital: (i) Bek - learning disability (adults) assessment, treatment and rehabilitation services (ii) Farnham - adult inpatient services, male (iii) Harland - low secure forensic long-term treatment ward for male adults with a learning disability (iv) Langley - low secure forensic rehabilitation ward for male adults with a learning disability (v) Ramsey - learning disability (adults) assessment, treatment and rehabilitation services (vi) Roseberry, Bowes Lyon Unit - older people's assessment and treatment inpatient services and (vii) Tunstall - adult inpatient services, female.<ref name=trust/> Appleton House is the home of the North of England Commissioning Support Unit and provides faith and chaplaincy services as well as pharmacy services.<ref name=trust/>
==See also== *List of hospitals in England == References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.tewv.nhs.uk/ Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust] * [https://www.necsu.nhs.uk/ North of England Commissioning Support Unit]
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Category:NHS hospitals in England Category:Psychiatric hospitals in England Category:Hospitals in County Durham Category:Witton Gilbert