ABSTRACT
The national and local objectives for the Care in the Community demonstration programme were made manifest in many ways. The numbers of people moving from hospital over the three-year period of central government funding, recorded in the next column, are instructive, and are certainly not unrelated to ‘project performance’ in a very general sense. Projects were trying to establish long-term residents of hospitals in well-supported community placements on the assumption that this was beneficial. One project disagreed with the statement of their target number of movers and with the number moved to date. Some of their clients moved great distances away from the area immediately upon leaving hospital. The project insisted that these were ‘project clients’, although it was not clear how they were benefiting from services established with Department of Health and Social Security funding under the Care in the Community programme.
