Muckamore Abbey Hospital
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| Muckamore Abbey Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Belfast Health and Social Care Trust | |
 Muckamore Abbey Hospital | |
  Location in Northern Ireland | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Abbey Road, Muckamore, Antrim, Northern Ireland |
| Coordinates | 54°41′32″N 6°11′19″W / 54.6923°N 6.1887°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Speciality | Mental health |
| History | |
| Opened | 1949 |
The Muckamore Abbey Hospital is a health facility on Abbey Road, Muckamore, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is managed by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.
The facility, which is located just south of a ruined Augustinian priory,[1] opened as a mental health facility in 1949.[2][3] A "special care colony" for people with an intellectual disability, with capacity of up to 1,000 patients, was added in 1958.[4]
The staff failed to realise in 2017 that the hospital's new CCTV system was recording all activities in the hospital. Some 300,000 hours of footage was discovered including "accounts of patients facing appalling cruelty and physical abuse, and being ignored while seriously unwell."[5]
Following a 2019 investigation into alleged abuses at the hospital, the Department of Health stated that it was considering a planned closure of the hospital.[6] This case has been called "the largest systemic abuse case uncovered in the UK".[5]