Glanrhyd Hospital

Glanrhyd Hospital is in Bridgend, and is one of the two main hospitals (the other being the Princess of Wales) in the area.

## Conspiracy notes

### p12

Large psychiatric hospital near Pen-y-Fai, partnered with Ysgol Bryn Castell in its development of child care programmes since privatisation in 2009. (Handwritten notes: 'Glanrhyd is ill', 'high [??] stats')

### p27/28

List of Bridgend suicides - in first 17 names, 5 are known Kin. This is either a freakish accident or a massive statistical anomaly, suggesting they were targeted. p28 handwritten notes: 'Where were they getting the pills?'

## Building

It has ten visible floors and at least one underground:

* 7-9 unmarked on site map
* 2-6 wards (receptionist said '3-6 have nursing/care staff as normal' - 2nd floor?)
* 1 research
* G reception/cafe
* U1 research

The whole building can be made airtight, as can each individual floor. Submarine pressure doors, windows that don't open, all air circulation appears to be an air processing plant rather than standard air conditioning. First floor has areas of positive pressure/airlocks that seem to be standard, with keycode locks. Most doors are card locks with secondary tumbler locks for emergencies. There are two lifts and fire stairs (lift 1 is running slow, use 2 or the stairs, suggests the night receptionist). (check how many staircases). The roof is flat, with a light well in the centre, no entrances/exits that way. The light well leads down to an internal garden on the ground floor. There are cameras on all the doors, but they point primarily inwards; making sure there's a good record of people leaving rather than entering. The fire escape routes show two different assembly points, A on the left of building and B on the right This is very weird.

Security patrols regularly throughout, using Channel 17 of the radios we have. They have dog patrols as well in the grounds (though they were in at c.2.30am). There are cameras outside on the drive, but not through the trees in the grounds (which are more a nicely laid out park than a wood). Outside, the Umbra is covered in steel spiderwebs; the hospital building especially so, the trees in the park less so, but still webbed. The cameras on the drive appear to be maybe fetishes?

The dog patrols are three sets of four dogs and a handler, Dobermann Pinschers, and very well-trained ones at that. The security staff are, by and large, ex-army - the one on the gate is Welsh Guards; he works here because, he says, they pay well.

## Staff

The night security person on the gate looked like ex-military; he's around 30, armed visibly with a night stick and nothing else.

Dr Edward Bryce-Williams is the head of pathology at the Princess of Wales (another nearby hospital) and also head of Glanrhyd Hospital.

Dr Elias Spencer is in Research on the first floor.

Jonathan Cundle is his very English research assistant.

Dr Ellen Lewis is a haematologist who works closely with Dr Spencer.

Martin is the name of a security guy who was off work today.

## Research

Dr Spencer says...

> The best possible result is a stable suppressant for adrenal/rage breaks. At the moment, in lab animals, they're looking at SSRIs, serotonin and mood stabilisers. Oral delivery method. There have been no human trials yet - best guess is 2-5 years in the future for that; but likely to move on to lower order primates in six months or so. Rats and rabbits are responding well, even with heightened aggression behaviour (even contagious) (Strong suggestion they're deliberately using rabies to increase aggression). The research is good at maintaining levels of pacification thus far. They get through 50-100 rodents a week.
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> They don't need additional project staff (*implication: they are not short of money here... Where's that coming from?*) - they just need to take time over the trials. It takes 3-6 months for a stable dosage to build up for a viable effect. (*NB: Spencer talked about 'anyone' with that type - are they testing on shifters and considering them non-human??*)
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> He wants around 50 volunteers for the human trials; double-blind testing protocols seem sensible, aside from the bit where he's possibly testing the Miranda/28 Days Later virus...
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> They've captured data from the 'original source' and are recoding it - there are 7 in-patients and 82 people who've been consulted (*as potential trial volunteers?*)
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