Gartnavel Royal Hospital

Gartnavel Royal Hospital is a mental health facility based in the west end of Glasgow, Scotland. It provides inpatient psychiatric care for the population of the West of the City; covering Hillhead, Partick, Scotstoun, Yoker, Clydebank, Drumchapel, Bearsden and Milngavie. It also houses the regional adolescent psychiatric unit and one of 3 Intensive Psychiatric Units within the city of Glasgow. Originally opened as the Glasgow Lunatic Asylum in 1814 in the Cowcaddens area of Glasgow, it became the Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum in 1824.

The facility moved to new premises in Gartnavel designed by Charles Wilson in 1843, becoming the Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital in 1931 and the Gartnavel Royal Hospital in 1963.

In December 1972, the Gartnavel General Hospital opened on the same site.

As of 2006, some of the buildings are unused however new facilities are under construction to be opened in 2007.