‘Institutionalised’ staff ‘perpetuating long hospital stays’

Psychiatric / mental health unit

Nearly half of NHS patients with a learning disability or autism are still being kept inappropriately in hospitals, several years into a key programme to reduce inpatient care, a national review reveals.

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