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The development of a community support service for the chronically mentally ill in an inner city health district

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Stephen Colgan  and
Keith Bridges
Stephen Colgan
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Rawnsley Building, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL
Keith Bridges
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Rawnsley Building, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL
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Community support teams are an important component of services for the chronically mentally ill who do not need to remain in hospital. In the autumn of 1989 the Department of Psychiatry in Central Manchester established a small team with a remit to develop such a service. The team is made up of four nursing staff (a charge nurse, staff nurse, SEN and a nursing auxiliary) with additional support provided by two occupational therapists, a clinical psychologist, consultant psychiatrist and senior registrar in rehabilitation psychiatry. This paper will briefly describe some of the experiences and problems that the service has encountered so far and some of the solutions that have been explored.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 12 , December 1990 , pp. 710 - 712
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