Quality of care in longer term mental health institutions in Europe: country experiences and results in a project to develop an assessment of quality of care (DEMoBinc II)

This session will examine the quality of longer term mental health institutions in 10 European countries (UK; Germany; Spain; Czech Republic; Bulgaria; Italy; Netherlands; Poland; Greece; Portugal) assessed as part of the DEMoBinc (Development of a European Measure of Best Practice for People with Long Term Mental Illness in Institutional Care) project. This European Commission funded project has produced the Quality Indicator for Rehabilitative Care (QuIRC), a web-based assessment for psychiatric and social care institutions. Papers presented in this symposium will report on the international and country specif…