Enoch Powell MP, Minister of Health, visits Cefn Coed on a tour of UK psychiatric hospitals. The same year he delivers the infamous Water Tower Speech in which he attacks psychiatric institutions and calls for a transition to community care. This marks a major turning point in psychiatric care in the NHS and the beginning of deinstitutionalisation.
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