It is managed by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

[1] The hospital was designed as a series of villas, each named after a local area and each intended to accommodate a category of resident i.e. children, adolescents, adults, geriatrics, or severely disabled.

[1] A medium secure unit, known as Newton Lodge, was built in the north east of the hospital site for mentally disordered offenders in the early 1980s.

[3] A patient with paranoid schizophrenia was charged with murdering a fellow-patient at the hospital in December 1998.

[4] The "Unity Centre", a new building with state of the art therapeutic areas, en-suite bathrooms and vastly improved patient relaxation areas, which was built at a cost of £17 million, was opened in September 2017.