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Nottingham and the Hospital Plan: a Follow-up Study of Long-Stay In-patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

John Howat
John Howat*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, Mapperley Hospital, Nottingham NG3 6AA
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Summary

The post-war development of psychiatric services in Nottingham, with their reduction in the number of beds and marked increase in in-patient turnover and day patient and out-patient attendances, represents a close approximation to the proposals of the 1962 Hospital Plan. These changes were achieved by redeployment of existing resources.

A fifteen-year attrition study of 1960 long-stay in-patients shows a high rate of discharge, especially for males.

The reasons for these findings and some implications are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 135 , Issue 1 , July 1979 , pp. 42 - 51
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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