Improving psychiatric care for older people : Barbara Robb's Campaign 1965-1975 / by Claire Hilton.

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Improving psychiatric care for older people : Barbara Robb's Campaign 1965-1975 / by Claire Hilton.

3319548123
9783319548128
3319548131 (electronic book)
9783319548135 (electronic book)

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

English

online resource (xxiii, 283 pages) : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-319-54813-5 doi

DA1-DA995

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). In 1965, Barbara visited 73-year-old Amy Gibbs in a dilapidated and overcrowded National Health Service psychiatric hospital back-ward. She was so appalled by the low standards that she set out to make improvements. Barbara's book Sans Everything: A case to answer was publicly discredited by a complacent and self-righteous Ministry of Health. However, inspired by her work, staff in other hospitals 'whistle-blew' about events they witnessed, which corroborated her allegations. Barbara influenced government policy, to improve psychiatric care and health service complaints procedures, and to establish a hospitals' inspectorate and ombudsman. The book will appeal to campaigners, health and social care staff and others working with older people, and those with an interest in policy development in England, the 1960s, women's history and the history of psychiatry and nursing.

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