Hospital closure: maintaining staff morale.
Closing a large psychiatric hospital is a complex exercise, and one of the main tasks for management is to maintain staff numbers and staff morale during the run-down period, and to help staff find new and rewarding roles in the community based service. Alistair Bailey and Martin Barkley explain how this was tackled at Netherne Hospital.
Barkley
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MJ
Mental Health Service, East Surrey Health Authority.
Bailey
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