Guidance on long-stay elderly patients in the transition
Whittingham Inquiry · Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Whittingham Hospital
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Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation, 112 (1)
The Department are, we understand, about to issue guidance on the problems of transition from mental illness services based on specialist psychiatric hospitals such as Whittingham to those based on units in general hospitals. Further thought and advice are urgently needed on provision that will have to be made for elderly long-stay patients who cannot be permanently accommodated in these new general hospital departments.
Whittingham Inquiry, Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Whittingham Hospital Source PDF, page 42 →
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