Long stay patients were generally moved into other institutions, care homes, group homes and similar, often with dowries and have always been a small part of the total population of people with mental health problems

"It is important to note the high rate of death among this patient group. The long-stay population in psychiatric hospitals is elderly."

http://www.mentalhealth.freeuk.com/outcome2.htm

This report mentions Claybury, where I worked in 1975!

The linked article in the Telegraph is very weak, mental health did not start in 1995!
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On 30 Oct, 2012,at 01:49 PM, Paul Bivand <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear all

Neil O'Brien of Policy Exchange has a bog post in the Telegraph on mental health benefit claims. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/neilobrien1/100186974/the-remarkable-rise-of-mental-illness-in-britain/.

The subtext seems to be that these can't be real.

However, does anyone have any figures on the numbers of people who used to be in mental hospitals/mental handicap hospitals before Care in the Community?

It's reasonably obvious that Care in the Community moved people from (expensive) NHS support to the benefit system, in many cases with support services paid for through Housing Benefit.

However, what I don't have access to is anything on the numbers (and costs) involved in that change - which obviously inflated the benefit costs and numbers.

Of course, the sort of rhetoric going on now went on in the 1830s, where paupers were deemed to be idle, and put into workhouses, which of course turned into mental hospitals and old people's accommodation quite naturally as they were always a major part of the poor.

Paul

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