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New unit on old ground or general hospital — where do patients want inpatient treatment?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Declan Lyons ,
Onsi Abd El Sayed  and
VM Matthew
Declan Lyons
Affiliation:
St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
VM Matthew
Affiliation:
The Little Brook Hospital, Thames Gateway NHS Trust, Stone, Dartford, Kent DA26PD, England
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Abstract

Objectives: To establish if the relocation of the acute adult psychiatric services of the Dartford area from a district general hospital (DGH) to a new unit in the grounds of Stone House Hospital, the large institution where they were formerly based, increased the stigma of receiving inpatient treatment.

Method: A brief survey of service users asked if this move near to, but not within, the old institution potentially increased the stigma of receiving inpatient treatment.

Results: Inpatients initially welcomed the move but expressed greater concern about stigma and on balance were substantially less enthused than outpatients about the move to a separate psychiatric hospital.

Conclusions: Moving an inpatient unit back to the vicinity of a large institution from a DGH setting is rare, however concerns about consequent stigma, particularly felt by inpatients merits early consideration at planning stages.

Keywords

AsylumDistrict general hospitalDe-institutionalisationCommunity psychiatryStigma
Type
Brief Report
Information
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , December 2001 , pp. 129 - 131
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2001

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