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Monitoring community care in York

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Giles Harborne  and
Annette Henderson
Giles Harborne
Affiliation:
Bootham Park Hospital, York
Annette Henderson
Affiliation:
Bootham Park Hospital, York
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Up to 37,000 chronic mentally ill and mentally handicapped patients have been discharged from long-stay hospitals over the past ten years and nobody knows for certain where most of them are. This is one of the findings of the 1986 Audit Commission into community care which prompted Sir Roy Griffiths (1988) to state in his report on community care that.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , March 1989 , pp. 140 - 144
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