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Changing the Institution—Research in Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Andrew Quarry  and
Rosemary Rayner
Andrew Quarry
Affiliation:
Severalls Hospital, Colchester
Rosemary Rayner
Affiliation:
Severalls Hospital, Colchester
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Large psychiatric hospitals are notoriously resistant to change. Their size and organisational complexity inevitably hinder their capacity to keep pace with trends. The serious consequences of a system that has ceased to adapt have been documented many times. Stereotyped routines and practices combine with rigid and bureaucratic management structures to produce the phenomenon of staff ‘burn out’, the “I've seen it all before and it doesn't work” syndrome.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , February 1988 , pp. 58 - 60
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