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The first memory clinic in the UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Michael P. Philpot  and
Raymond Levy
Michael P. Philpot
Affiliation:
Department of Mental Health of Older Adults, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ, email: [email protected]
Raymond Levy
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 33 , Issue 5 , May 2009 , pp. 196
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One of us was recently congratulated by their local primary care trust commissioner on having set up the first memory clinic in the UK. This was incorrect but that was the possible impression given in the first sentence of Dr Foy's interesting survey (Psychiatr Bull 2008; 32: 467–9). The paper that she cites Reference Philpot and Levy1 described the Maudsley Memory Clinic that we think was the second in the UK but the first based within a psychiatric service. We ought to have cited the excellent paper by van der Cammen et al Reference Van der Cammen, Simpson, Fraser, Preker and Exton-Smith2 that actually describes the first clinic at St Pancras Hospital but which had not been published at the time. Now that there is to be ‘a memory clinic in every town’ we thought we had better set the record straight.

References

1 Philpot, M, Levy, R. A memory clinic for the early diagnosis of dementia. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 1987; 2: 195–200.Google Scholar
2 Van der Cammen, TJ, Simpson, JM, Fraser, RM, Preker, AS, Exton-Smith, AN. The Memory Clinic. A new approach to the detection of dementia. Br J Psychiatry 1987; 150: 359–64.Google Scholar
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