Normansfield Hospital is a Grade II* listed building[1] in Teddington in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England.
It now houses the national office of the Down's Syndrome Association, and the Langdon Down Museum of Learning Disability.
The Normansfield Hospital was founded at the White House in Teddington as an institution for mentally disabled children by John Langdon Down,[2] after whom Down syndrome was named.
[3] The nurses were angry that the regional health authority had ignored their grievances against the consultant psychiatrist Terence Lawlor and demanded that he be suspended.
COHSE was roundly criticised for a strike over which its officials had broken union rules, misled their membership and then blamed the nurses.