Trends in special (high-security) hospitals
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 176 (3) , 260-265
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.176.3.260
Abstract
Background It has been argued that many patients in special hospital beds do not need to be there. In the 1990s there were initiatives to discharge women and people with learning difficulties.Keywords
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