Dear Ivor...: Having spent my last four years in the NHS working for the mentally handicapped.
An administrator who has been promoted out of the field of mental handicap writes an open letter to one of his recent patients in the mental handicap sector of Brentry Hospital. Aware of the deficiencies of the 1959 Mental Health Act and with deep reservations about any real improvements resulting from the Jay committee's recommendations, Winston Tayler, states the case, as he sees it, for the mentally handicapped.
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