Bed numbers and acute in-patient care
dc.contributor.author | Middleton, Hugh | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-29T13:17:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-29T13:17:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Middleton, H. (2007). Bed numbers and acute in-patient care. Psychiatric Bulletin, 31 (6), pp.233. | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1192/pb.31.5.233a | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12904/11362 | |
dc.description.abstract | Reply 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.uri | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychiatric-bulletin/article/bed-numbers-and-acute-inpatient-care/EB2FB7679BCD005473B4FD23B6157143 | |
dc.subject | Health personnel | |
dc.subject | Mental health services | |
dc.subject | Hospitals | |
dc.title | Bed numbers and acute in-patient care | |
dc.type | Correspondence | |
html.description.abstract | Reply 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. |