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Psychiatric admission services for people with learning disability

Psychiatry of Mental Handicap, Leavesden Hospital, College Road, Abbots Langley, Herts. WD5 0NU and Hillingdon Hospital, Pield Heath Road, Uxbridge UB8 3NN

M. I. Khalid, Registrar

Psychiatry of Mental Handicap. Leavesden Hospital

M. J. Dickinson, Senior Registrar

Psychiatry of Mental Handicap, Cell Barnes Hospital, Highfield Road, St Albans AL4 0RG

As the care of people with learning disability has shifted from large Victorian hospitals to the community, provision for in-patient psychiatric treatment has, in many districts, also moved. Purpose built district or supra-district admission services represent the most common model. An alternative is the use of existing general psychiatric beds. In this article we describe the first 18 months of the Hillingdon district service where this latter model has been adopted.