Patterns of New Chronicity in a Mental Hospital

1 September 1973

journal article
Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry

Vol. 123 (574) , 349-351
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.123.3.349

Abstract

The accumulation of `new chronics' despite the improvements in treatment is contributing to the failure of mental hospitals to reduce their beds in the way originally predicted. These patients have a variety of needs which have to be met if they are to live with success outside the mental hospital. It is regrettable that these needs are barely discussed in the Ministry Memorandum Hospital Services for the Mentally Ill.

Keywords

NEW CHRONICS
MENTAL HOSPITAL
MENTALLY ILL
ORIGINALLY PREDICTED
BARELY DISCUSSED
MEMORANDUM HOSPITAL
MINISTRY MEMORANDUM

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Long-stay psychiatric inpatients: a study based on the Camberwell Register
Psychological Medicine, 1971
The New Chronics
The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1967