page_title: Stratheden Hospital
section_title: Recent developments
hierarchical_section_title: Stratheden Hospital / History / Recent developments
caption_attribution_description: Photo taken by me of newly built Hollyview Ward, Stratheden psychiatric Hospital, Cupar, Fife on 15 May 2016
context_page_description: Stratheden Hospital is currently a small community hospital in Cupar, Fife which was originally called Fife and Kinross District Asylum. Its name was changed to Stratheden Hospital in 1948. It was a centre of excellence in Child and Family Psychiatry from the 1960s. In the 21st century, it caters for psychiatric health. It is managed by NHS Fife.
context_section_description: In September 2014 Mrs Chrys Muirhead won an Ombudsman case against NHS Fife for the "unreasonable treatment" of her son in Stratheden Hospital. Mr Muirhead had been resident in the hospital in February 2012, and Mrs Muirhead had raised a number of complaints with the Fife Health Board, Fife Council Social Work and Fife Police throughout 2012. There was a locked seclusion room being used in the old intensive psychiatric care unit or Ward 4 at Stratheden which had no toilet, light or water, and Mrs Muirhead's son was locked in this room overnight, in the dark, unobserved, for hours at a time, with a broken hand untreated. When he needed the toilet no nurses appeared and Mr Muirhead had to defecate on the floor of the cell, following which, when still no nurses appeared, he did a dirty protest in his distress at being neglected.
  Plans for a new intensive psychiatric care unit (IPCU) at Stratheden were approved in 2014 and construction began in 2015 with funds awarded by Scottish Government. On 6 July 2015 First Minister Nicola Sturgeon joined NHS Fife chief executive Paul Hawkins in a sod-cutting ceremony at Stratheden Hospital and said "The Scottish Government is investing over £2 billion in Scotland’s health infrastructure over the spending review period, with this development being one of many that demonstrate the Scottish Government’s commitment to continually improving health services.”  The extension cost £4.4 million and includes a communal lounge, rooms for rehabilitative and therapeutic activities, access to an outdoor courtyard, private meeting rooms for visits from families or visitors, an IT suite and eight new patient en-suite rooms.  Hollyview Ward, IPCU, was officially opened by Maureen Watt MSP, Minister for Mental Health, in July 2016.
caption: Hollyview Ward, Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit (IPCU) Stratheden Hospital, Cupar, Fife, 15 May 2016
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