Herdmanflat Hospital | |
Org/Group: | NHS Lothian |
Coordinates: | 55.96°N -2.7867°W |
Location: | Haddington, Scotland |
Healthcare: | NHS |
Founded: | 1866 |
Other Links: | List of hospitals in Scotland |
Map Type: | Scotland East Lothian |
Herdmanflat Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in Aberlady Road, Haddington, Scotland. It was operated by NHS Lothian.[1]
The hospital was located at a site which was once known as Herdmanflat Farm.[2] The facility was designed by Peddie and Kinnear and opened as the East Lothian District Asylum in 1866.[3] [4] A dining hall was added in 1890 and several villas were added in 1908.[4] It joined the National Health Service in 1948.[3]
After the Garleton Unit at Herdmanflat Hospital had been upgraded at a cost of £250,000, mental health services transferred from Edenhall Hospital in Musselburgh. This created a "one-stop shop for older people's mental health services" for the whole of East Lothian at Herdmanflat Hospital.[5]
In 2014 NHS Lothian proposed creating a community hospital on the site of the old Roodlands General Hospital.[6] After all services moved to the new East Lothian Community Hospital, the Herdmanflat Hospital closed in 2020.[7] [8]