Medical and general reports and accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1946 : Ham Common, Richmond, Surrey / The Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorders.

  • Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorders (Richmond, England)
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[1948?]
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Credit: Medical and general reports and accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1946 : Ham Common, Richmond, Surrey / The Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The hospital entered the National Health Service on 5th July; 50 percent of its beds are now free and the other 50 percent will be amenity beds for which a prescribed scale of charges will be made. Patients may be received from any region in the country. Applications for admission should be made to the Medical Director who is responsible for selecting patients for admission, and patients are seen by a member of the senior medical staff before a decision to admit for treatment is made. The hospital will continue to admit only cases of neurosis in which, given suitable treatment, the prognosis is reasonably good. In case of doubt, or where the patient lives some distance from London, the patient may be admitted for a preliminary investigatory period up to a fortnight. It is hoped to keep the hospital waiting .list within reasonable proportions by this assessment before admission. In short, following its disruption by the war, the hospital, by October 1948, will be working fully in new and suitable accommodation nearer to London and with an increased number of beds. aim m