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This document also stated that the Authority should be "constituted as a small organisation, operating flexibly and maximising delegation of operational responsibility to hospital level, rather than acting as a centralised interventionist body". To this end, a Unit General Manager was appointed to
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The Authority was abolished in 1996, when its commissioning functions passed to the High Security Psychiatric Services Commissioning Board, while each of the hospitals became independently managed as a Special Health Authority in its own right.
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develop the hospitals as centres of excellence for the training of staff in all disciplines in forensic and other branches of psychiatry, psychiatric care and treatment;
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from 1989 to 1996. It had responsibility for managing the three high-security "special" psychiatric hospitals in England:
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develop closer working relationships with local and regional NHS psychiatric services;
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The SHSA was established to distance the hospitals from the direct control of the
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promote research into fields related to forensic psychiatry.
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ensure the provision of appropriate treatment for patients;
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ensure a good quality of life for both patients and staff;
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