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Medical audit and mental health care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gyles R. Glover
Gyles R. Glover*
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Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, 17 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AR
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The recent prominence of medical audit in psychiatry is due in large measure to the place given to the subject in the government's White Paper Working for Patients (DoH, 1989a). However, medical audit existed before the White Paper and covers a broader scope than the White Paper proposes. Thus in considering the introduction of audit into the mental health services it is important not to allow the White Paper to narrow the field of view.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 6 , June 1990 , pp. 326 - 327
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