Gartnavel Royal Hospital is a mental health facility based in the west end of Glasgow, Scotland.

The new facility, which was designed by Charles Wilson in the Gothic Revival style,[5] allowed segregation by patients' gender and social class.

The modernisation cost £19 million and was said to be "the most modern and innovative building of its kind in the UK" at the time of opening.

"[13] On 8 October 1998, an enquiry was held on behalf of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland on the death of Joseph Doherty.

In 1992 Doherty killed himself with a fatal leap from Erskine Bridge, after telling hospital staff he was going for a walk.

[14] Six years later, during the inquiry, the family were given the outcome of the investigation but not the evidence, with the explanation that the Mental Health (Scotland) Act of 1984 did not allow the Commission to share the information publicly.

[15] On 26 July 2006, an inquiry was held on the death of Kenneth Pitt, a patient at Gartnavel Royal Hospital who died at the Western Infirmary.

Samuel Cathcart, Sheriff at the hearing, commented that these issues "are not, however, matters which, in my view, have a direct bearing on Kenneth's death".