An ordinary life. The Northern Ireland experience.
The contraction of long stay psychiatric and mental handicap hospitals in Northern Ireland started later than in England and is proceeding more slowly. So far, the process appears to be a carefully planned one. Michael Donnelly and Nicholas Mays report.
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Health and Health Care Research Unit, Queen's University, Belfast.
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