Predicting the community costs of closing psychiatric hospitals: national extrapolations
Journal of Mental Health 1 4 315-325
Available online: 6 July 2009
Abstract
There were 56,900 in-patients `under one of the mental illness specialties' in England's National Health Service hospitals in March 1990. Approximately 31,000 of these people had been in continuous residence for at least a year, and most of these long-