Ashworth Hospital

Ashworth Hospital
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Entrance to Ashworth Hospital off School Lane
Location in Merseyside
Geography
Location	Maghull, England
Coordinates	53°31′13″N 2°54′39″W / 53.52019°N 2.91094°W / 53.52019; -2.91094
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Type	Psychiatric
Services
Emergency department	No
Links
Website	www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ashworth-hospital

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Ashworth Hospital is a high-security psychiatric hospital in Maghull, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Liverpool. It is a part of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, catering to patients with psychiatric health needs that require treatment in conditions of high security.

The hospital is one of four psychiatric hospitals in the United Kingdom providing psychiatric care within conditions of high security, and one of three in England (alongside Broadmoor Hospital in Crowthorne and Rampton Secure Hospital near Woodbeck). For Scotland and Northern Ireland, the facility meeting the same high security environment is the State Hospital in Carstairs.