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The costs of hospital closure: reproviding services for the residents of Darenth Park Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Howard Glennerster
Howard Glennerster*
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London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2
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There has been little economic evaluation of the costs of closing long-stay institutions. Studies that have been undertaken have rarely had the opportunity to study the before and after effects of complete closure. Most attention has focused on the mentally ill not the mentally handicapped. This study followed a sample of residents leaving Darenth Park Hospital which was closed in 1988.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , March 1990 , pp. 140 - 143
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989

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