Click to read this case study on ‘Deinstitutionalisation in UK mental health services’ on The Kings Fund website.

1. Under what conditions, do people benefit from the process of deinstitutionalisation?
2. What were the key issues that workforce planning had to address during the deinstitutionalisation process?
3. When the wards were closed, it was found that staff themselves had become institutionalised by the asylum system. How was this issue addressed, and what behaviours do you think they developed that wouldn’t be appropriate today?