| Kirklands Hospital | |
| Location: | Bothwell |
| Region: | South Lanarkshire |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Healthcare: | NHS Scotland |
| Type: | Psychiatric hospital |
| Speciality: | Psychiatry |
| Emergency: | No |
| Founded: | 1871 |
| Map Type: | Scotland South Lanarkshire |
| Coordinates: | 55.8117°N -4.0642°W |
Kirklands Hospital is a mental health facility in Bothwell, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lanarkshire.
The hospital, which was designed by Thomas Halket, was established by Dr William Dean Fairless as a private psychiatric facility for the "upper and middle classes" and opened as the Bothwell Asylum in June 1871.[1] [2] [3] It was acquired by the Glasgow District Board of Lunacy in 1879 and, after being significantly expanded in the Scottish baronial style, reopened as the Kirklands District Asylum in 1881.[1] It became Kirklands Mental Hospital in the 1920s and then joined the National Health Service as Kirklands Hospital in 1948.[4]
After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and the old buildings were replaced by smaller modern assessment and treatment facilities.[5] [6] Since 2010, the site has also been used by NHS Lanarkshire as their headquarters[7] and medical training centre.[8] [9]