Innovation in a backwater: The Harpurhey Resettlement Team and the mental health services of North Manchester, 1982-1987.
This paper explores the circumstances around the setting up of the Harpurhey Resettlement Team, an innovative project which, in the late 1980s, resettled around 20 long-stay patients from Springfield Hospital in North Manchester into ordinary tenancies within the same neighbourhood. It argues that Springfield's position as a marginalised and neglected institution produced the conditions for such innovation; while the particular and unexpected convergence of national policies, local structures and institutional politics created space for a process of change which, in both form and outcome, could not have occurred in the more regulated psychiatric environments elsewhere in Manchester.
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Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. valerie.harrington-2@manchester.ac.uk
D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004739:England; D008605:Mental Health Services; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D012917:Social Adjustment