Nottingham and the Hospital Plan: a Follow-up Study of Long-Stay In-patients

The post-war development of psychiatric services in Nottingham, with their reduction in the number of beds and marked increase in in-patient turnover and day patient and out-patient attendances, represents a close approximation to the proposals of the 1962 Hospital Plan. These changes were achieved by redeployment of existing resources. A fifteen-year attrition study of 1960 long-stay in-patients shows a high rate of discharge, especially for males. The reasons for these findings and some implications are discussed.