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Costs and outcomes for people with special psychiatric needs
- Author:
- HALLAM Angela
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Research Review, 3,, April 1996, pp.10-13.
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
As the psychiatric hospital closure programme gathers momentum, an increasingly disabled population of 'new' long-stay patients accumulates in the remaining wards. These people were identified twenty years ago as the most difficult to support outside hospital and they are characterised by severe symptoms of mental illness and a range of additional behavioural and social problems. If the policy aim to relocate all long-stay hospital care is to be accomplished, the nature of the challenges presented by the special needs of this group of patients must be acknowledged and addressed.