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West London Mental Healthcare NHS Trust (WLMHT) was established 1 October 2000. The headquarters is at 1 Armstrong Way, Southall, near to the St Bernard's Hospital site. This is on the south side of the Uxbridge Road between the towns of Southall and Hanwell and 8½ miles west from London, in the Southall district of the London Borough of Ealing, Greater London, England. Services are spread across 25 sites, notably including Broadmoor Hospital, and the trust employs around 3,500 people,〔http://www.wlmht.nhs.uk/about-the-trust/〕 serving a local population of over 700,000 and treating more than 35,000 people each year.〔http://www.wlmht.nhs.uk/about-the-trust/the-organisation/〕 Due to its larger remit there are seven executive directors, and eight non-executive directors.〔http://www.wlmht.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Board-of-directors-March-2015.pdf〕 Currently the trust is in the process becoming a NHS Foundation Trust.〔http://www.wlmht.nhs.uk/about-the-trust/foundation-trust/〕 It has been embroiled in a series of controversies, however, involving millions of pounds of unaccounted overspend, poor Care Quality Commission reports and whistleblower allegations of a bullying management style; the Chief Executive resigned in 2015. ==History== *Middlesex County Asylum, Hanwell (1831–1889) *London County Asylum, Hanwell (1889–1917) *London County Mental Hospital (1918–1928) *Hanwell Mental Hospital (1929–1937) *St Bernard's Hospital (1938–1980) *Psychiatric Unit (1980–1992) – part of a re-organized complex of divisions on same site and called Ealing Hospital with a central corporate body. *West London Mental Healthcare (NHS) Trust. (1992–1999) See: Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 2539. (The West London Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992 ). *Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham Mental Health (NHS) Trust (1999–2001) *West London Mental Health NHS Trust (2001–present) The trust's services based at St Bernard's Hospital in west London occupy some of the original buildings once known as Hanwell Asylum. Here the first superintendent Dr (later Sir) William & Mrs Mildred Ellis who were so much impressed with Moral therapy and humane treatment they saw offered to people suffering Mental disorders at the Quaker Asylum in York that they both imposed these methods on the staff at Hanwell. This was as such the very first large scale experiment. The second superintendent brought mechanical restraints – as a form of treatment – back. The third superintendent Dr John Conolly against stiff opposition backed up with much vitriol, took the example further, and did away with all mechanical restraints. To the surprise and disbelief of many he found, like the Ellises before, that bedlam diminished, behaviour became less defensive and cooperation improved dramatically, and many recovered or much improved. This event added to his other pioneering work such as developing proper diets and conditions for his patients and battles to set up regular training lecture specialising in mental health, for doctor training, all led to him receiving world wide recognition. Broadmoor high secure hospital: In order to end the isolation suffered by the high secure services from the rest of the NHS, the Health Act 1999 was passed, allowing NHS Trusts to provide for these. After a three-month consultation in the early part of the following year it was agreed that the high secure services based at Broadmoor and those provided by the Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham Mental Health NHS Trust should be combined into one organisation. This created the existing West London Mental Health NHS Trust, which took over governance in 2001. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「West London Mental Health NHS Trust」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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