Patients considered in need of new long-term compulsory inpatient treatment

Background/Objectives: In 2006 the Dutch government and the municipalities of the major cities in the Netherlands decided on a successful programme to address the needs of homeless people. The municipalities became responsible for developing individualised, assertive, care plans for their homeless inhabitants. For one group of clients, however, it was observed that the prevailing care options had proven insufficient. This group consisted of clients with co-occurring severe mental and substance use disorders, who had been treated by all available means, including compulsory hospital admissions, but who did not ga…