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dc.contributor.authorMiddleton, Hugh
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-29T13:17:12Z
dc.date.available2017-09-29T13:17:12Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationMiddleton, H. (2007). Bed numbers and acute in-patient care. Psychiatric Bulletin, 31 (6), pp.233.
dc.identifier.other10.1192/pb.31.5.233a
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12904/11362
dc.description.abstractReply by the current author to the comments made by Mat Kinton (see record 2007-03087-011) on the original article (see record 2006-21239-003). I am pleased that Mat Kinton has given some views on bed numbers as a limitation to acute in-patient care as it provides an opportunity to extend the debate further. To my mind arguing that 'improvement may be reliant upon a much more fundamental question of resources: beds for the patients' is an unjustified oversimplification. Of course it is highly unsatisfactory when over-occupancy does occur but as Mat himself acknowledges this is not a universal experience. Merely highlighting bed shortages oversimplifies and detracts from more relevant but possibly more complex and challenging aspects of the very necessary agenda to improve acute in-patient care.
dc.description.urihttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychiatric-bulletin/article/bed-numbers-and-acute-inpatient-care/EB2FB7679BCD005473B4FD23B6157143
dc.subjectHealth personnel
dc.subjectMental health services
dc.subjectHospitals
dc.titleBed numbers and acute in-patient care
dc.typeCorrespondence
html.description.abstractReply by the current author to the comments made by Mat Kinton (see record 2007-03087-011) on the original article (see record 2006-21239-003). I am pleased that Mat Kinton has given some views on bed numbers as a limitation to acute in-patient care as it provides an opportunity to extend the debate further. To my mind arguing that 'improvement may be reliant upon a much more fundamental question of resources: beds for the patients' is an unjustified oversimplification. Of course it is highly unsatisfactory when over-occupancy does occur but as Mat himself acknowledges this is not a universal experience. Merely highlighting bed shortages oversimplifies and detracts from more relevant but possibly more complex and challenging aspects of the very necessary agenda to improve acute in-patient care.


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