From Special Care to Specialist Treatment

When Muckamore Abbey Hospital first admitted patients in 1949, services in Northern Ireland for people with learning disability lagged far behind those in the rest of Ireland and the United Kingdom. By the 1960s, however, this had been replaced by what was considered to be a model service. From Special Care to Specialist Treatment: A History of Muckamore Abbey Hospital tells the remarkable, indeed heart-warming, story of the central role that Muckamore Abbey played then in the positive transform