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Befriending: cost-effective community care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

D. G. Kingdon ,
D. Turkington ,
J. Collis  and
M. Judd
J. Collis
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Bassetlaw District General Hospital, Worksop, Nottinghamshire
M. Judd
Affiliation:
Bassetlaw MIND
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In a survey of district plans for Mental Health services (Kingdon, 1988) befriending schemes, where volunteers are recruited to visit isolated and lonely users of psychiatric services, were planned or in existence in 14 of the 127 districts who responded. However, lists of the components of a comprehensive community service (MIND, 1983) and Hirsch (1988) surprisingly do not include references to such schemes, although Griffiths (1988) alludes to them in his recent report. There are moreover no reports in the psychiatric literature of such enterprises. The scheme established by MIND in Bassetlaw (population (103,000) is therefore described.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 7 , July 1989 , pp. 350 - 351
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