All change for Millview

Article Abstract:

Millview psychiatric hospital in Brighton, United Kingdom, was built to replace an outdated hospital which could not offer good quality care. Millview looks very impressive but there is not enough money to improve on former staffing ratios and patients who are getting better have to move on to the general hospital. Bed occupancy is about 103% and nurses do not have as much time as they would like with patients. This restricts the number of group therapy sessions the hospital can run. The intensive care ward is used for very violent patients, many of whom are drunk or on drugs.

Hospitals, Portrayals, Brighton, England, Psychiatric hospitals

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Patients' choice

Article Abstract:

Increased consumerism may appear to be a positive step in reducing paternalism in the NHS and ensuring that the patient's needs are fully met. Consumer groups and patients' organisations have been promoting consumerism as a way of overcoming problems such as a lack of information and participation, but consumerism in itself may not be the ideal way of increasing patient influence on health care. It can disguise lack of political representation in the NHS, and also fails because consumer feedback is distorted by the way health professionals view patient requirements.

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The people's check-up

Article Abstract:

Ordinary people's views about the UK National Health Service (NHS) in the years immediately after it began operating in 1948 tended to be influenced by their political opinions. Information gathered by mass-observation scientists indicates that some people were unwilling to queue for NHS treatment and that there was some tension as a result of the mixing of social classes. However, in 1949 well over half the people who had had experience of NHS treatment believed that they had benefited from it.

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