Rampton Secure Hospital?

Question

This is supposed to be a well known high security hospital. I was just wondering what actually happens inside of a place like this.

1. Does it have padded cells and straight jackets?
2. Are the patients used to test new drugs on?
3. Are the patients always 'doped up'?
4. Is there lots of corruption - rape, bullying, drugs, cover ups etc

Can anyone tell me real answers to this please?

Answer 1

Somekinda pretty much summed it up. The big thing is the inmates (patients) can not simply walk away. They are hazardous to themselves and/or others. The doors are locked, and staff present at all times.
For the most part, these places are clean, decent hospitals. Specially trained staff and underlings work to prevent bullying and other sordid behaviours amongst the patients.
Oh dear, I had better run, here comes the nice man with the butterfly net. We have to go round up a few more. Someone left the scullery door open again....

Answer 2

1: Padded cells and straight jackets are outdated now and not used.
2: The patients aren't used to test new drugs on - that would be incredibly immoral and sounds a little conspiracy theoryish don't you think?
3: The patients are often 'doped up' if they are violent or dangerous to themselves or others - it's a simple matter of protecting them and the staff and public, although this will generally be short-term until a workable treatment regime is found.
4: There probably is bullying etc in these places, as, unfortunately there is wherever vulnerable people are to be found - Schools, Hospitals, Old folks homes etc. This seems to be unavoidable and a part of human nature, although these places are regulated and as much is done as can be to avoid this.

Answer 3

Secure units are places of treatment where the risk is reduced for patients and staff,stritjackets are not used but there is chemical usage to minimise violence available.there are still "padded cells" but these are again used only if really necessary and it isnt like you see in the cinema,they are rooms where materials are used which could not be broken to allow self harm or be used as a weapon.Like any institution there is a hierarchy especially amongst the patients so yes there are incidents of bullying rape is not unknown ,these though are 99% perpetrated by inmates most people who gointo work in state hospitals truly do care and though they can become jaded by the seemingly futile people they work with they do care otherwise why would they stay?

Answer 4

No it doesn't have padded cells and straight jackets. it is medically unethical to test new drugs on people who cannot consent but some inmates are heavily sedated, although not all as each one is treated as an individual. Like all institutions there will no doubt be some problems with bullying etc but the staff are very highly trained and not just anyone can work there. The living conditions are actually very good, all inmates have their own room and facilities with access to a gym and gardens and some of them have their own little patch of garden to cultivate. In fact the majority of them have a better lifestyle than some people on the outside.

Answer 5

The hospital houses about 400 patients who have been detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 under one of these classifications:

Mental illness
Psychopathic (personality) disorder
(Severe) mental impairment, which is the legal term for what would now be called learning difficulties.
Rampton Hospital is the UK national centre for high-secure care of patients with learning difficulties (which often are together with mental illness/personality disorder) and a pilot site for an intensive personality disorder service.

About a quarter of the patients have had no significant contact with the criminal justice system, but have been detained under the Mental Health Act and are considered to require treatment in conditions of "special security" owing to their "dangerous, violent or criminal propensities". Others have been convicted of an offence by the courts and either ordered to be detained in hospital or subsequently transferred there from prison.

It has a staff of about 1,500.

In former times the area which is now the hospital was occupied by open land called "Rampton Field", which was likely a big common.

On Tuesday 22 May 1979 Yorkshire Television showed a program "Rampton, The Secret Hospital", which was a severe exposé of mistreatment of Rampton patients by staff; it is listed in a "top ten" of television programs which caused serious effects, and it got an International Emmy. A follow-up television report a few weeks later said that its effect within Rampton Hospital was a few scapegoat prosecutions, and things continuing as before except that no staff member could trust another staff member not to be an informer.

In recent years the open ground between its gate and the nearest hospital buildings have been built-over with a housing estate for its staff.

Care in the Community was a policy of the Margaret Thatcher government in the 1980s. Its aim was a more liberal way of helping people with mental health problems, by removing them from impersonal, often Victorian, institutions, and caring for them in their own homes. Also, better drugs became available and this meant that patients could be treated at home. It was also meant to reduce the cost of institutionalizing so many mentally ill people.

Although there have been murders by a few people in the community with mental health problems, it is worth noting that it is far more likely that someone with mental health problems will be subject to attack by someone who is healthy themselves.

Answer 6

Oh dear. Its worrying that people still believe some of that stuff. The first anwerer is right. They may actually let you look around but you have to have prior arrangement and it is usually only student nurses and doctors as you need to have your criminal records check done so that you can be around vulnerable people. Rampton is about the same as broadmoor down south. The patients their have usually either committed serious crime and have sever mental health problems, or have severe mental health problems and have a high risk of being a danger to themselves or others. Its like a prison but the people there do not deserve prison as it is not right for them they need help with their mental health problems first, if they recover before it is believed they have paid back society for their crime then they may be transferred back to prison. There is no inhumane treatment in the UK anymore. There is the same amount of bullying etc as in prison, but it is high secure so I would hope drugs and rape would be rare.

Answer 7

Rampton The Secret Hospital

Answer 8

Its not supposed to be, it is a well known high secure hospital

Real answers

1. No
2. No
3. Some are on medication and occasionally some will be 'doped up' if violent/disturbed
4. Not lots, but as in any institution there will be some


See for general info: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2205956.stm

Answer 9

By the description you give I hope I never ever find out.

Answer 10

Why don't you go for a visit. they will be glad to show you round on a Saturday.