EAN: 9783319854908

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). In 1965 Barbara visited 73-year-old Amy Gibbs in a dilapidated and overcrowded National Health Service psychiatric hospital back-ward. She was so appalled by the low standards that she set out to make improvements. Barbara's book Sans Everything: A case to answer was publicly discredited by a complacent and self-righteous Ministry of Health. However inspired by her work staff in other hospitals 'whistle-blew' about events they witnessed which corroborated her allegations. Barbara influenced government policy to improve psychiatric care and health service complaints procedures and to establish a hospitals' inspectorate and ombudsman. The book will appeal to campaigners health and social care staff and others working with older people and those with an interest in policy development in England the 1960s women's history and the history of psychiatry and nursing.

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