Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People: Barbara Robb’s Campaign 1965-1975
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 t...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-500682024-03-25T18:29:42Z Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People: Barbara Robb’s Campaign 1965-1975 Claire Hilton D1-2009 social welfare elderly NHS public services older people history psychiatry thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose 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. 2021-02-11T16:02:13Z 2021-02-11T16:02:13Z 2017-11-23 12:33:33 2017 book 24594 0 9783319548128 9783319548135 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/50068 eng Mental Health in Historical Perspective image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319548128#otherversion=9783319548135 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-54813-5 Palgrave Macmillan https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54813-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54813-5 d27cd9b0-53e1-403f-a4c8-b180427f6be6 9783319548128 9783319548135 283 open access |
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