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The DHSS Mental Illness Policy Paper: A Personal View

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Reed*
Affiliation:
Community Psychiatry Research Unit, Hackney Hospital, London
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In November 1982, a conference on the provision of comprehensive, district based, psychiatric services was organized by the Community Psychiatry Research Unit of St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. At this conference, Lord Trefgarne, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the DHSS, reaffirmed the Department's policy of creating local district psychiatric services and closing those mental illness hospitals which are not well placed to provide a local service.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1983

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