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23 results found for '"Mentally disabled"' in Keywords.
Labour conference- Jim Callaghan speech (1977)
- Genre
- Speech
Prime Minister James Callaghan, speaking at the Labour Party conference 1977, on money for the Mental Health Act.
Disabled children in NHS (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Maureen Oswin on a report on the deprivation of mentally and physically disabled childrens in NHS hospitals. Sound level low.
Conditions of hospitals for mentally disabled children (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Secretary of State for Social Services, David Ennals discusses the conditions within hospitals for the mentally disabled. Ennals insists that there is still room for improvement and that children who do not...
Eric Moonman on Normansfield psychiatric hospital (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Labour MP Eric Moonman discusses details of a report outlining poor conditions at Normansfield psychiatric hospital. Moonman says there is a widespread problem with such hospitals in Britain and that the...
Tony Smythe on Normansfield Hospital inquiry (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Tony Smythe of MIND on the low standards of British psychiatric hospitals. Smthye calls for the Government to invest more money in the area and for the public to have a greater awareness of the problems. The...
Tranquillizers prescribed in prisons (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview on the prescription of tranquillizers in prisons to enable prisoners to cope with the stresses of incarceration, and to control the violent or the mentally ill which mental hospitals have refused...
Tranquillizers prescribed in prisons (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview on the prescription of tranquillizers in prisons to enable prisoners to cope with the stresses of incarceration, and to control the violent or the mentally ill. Recommends a reduction in prison...
Staff and patient’s parents on St Lawrence’s Hospital (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with a member of staff at St Lawrence’s Hospital, on the need to restrain an 18 year-old boy. The patient was shown tied to a pillar in a television documentary, The Silent Minority. Followed by...
Healthcare professionals defend Borocourt Hospital (1981)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Phil Coope(?) reports on a documentary that revealed conditions in psychiatric hospitals, including Borocourt near Reading. Broadcaster ATV has said it will amend some of the scenes in The Silent Minority...
George Young on care in the community (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Health Minister Sir George Young on a Green Paper which claims that 15,000 mentally disabled people could be released from residential care if services were available in the community. Male interviewer not...