The cost consequences of changing the hospital-community balance: the mental health residential care study

Martin Knapp, Daniel Chisholm, Jack Astin, Paul Lelliott, Bernard Audini (1997)

Psychological Medicine 27 3 681-692

Available online: 1 May 1997

Abstract

Changing the locus of care from the psychiatric hospitals to the community is a key and often contentious component of mental health care policy in many countries. Implementation of this policy in the UK has been slowed by the apparent shortage of suit