title: Mental health. Wrong side of beds.
abstract: Bed occupancy in inner city mental health trusts varies widely. The number of admissions outside the patient's local trust also shows wide variations. There is no relationship between the number of acute beds in a trust and the number of admissions outside a trust. The study suggests that opening more beds is not by itself the answer to easing pressure on services.
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Services of Salford Trust.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bradley
mesh_terms: D001509:Bed Occupancy; D003625:Data Collection; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom