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The Portsmouth Care Consortium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rod Bale
Rod Bale*
Affiliation:
Portsmouth and SE Hants Health Authority, Cavendish House, 18 Victoria Road South, Portsmouth PO5 2BZ
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The co-ordination of services for the long-term mentally ill in the community poses difficulties of organisation. Each country has its own health and social service structure which influences the development of such services. This paper outlines an approach to co-ordinating care in Portsmouth. The mental health services were well known in the ‘30s because of their community orientation due to the leadership of Thomas Beaton, the superintendent of St James' Hospital (Freeman, 1962). The city has a population of 210,000. Previous seaside holiday accommodation is now utilised for residential care homes for the elderly and the mentally ill.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 9 , September 1992 , pp. 550 - 551
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

References

Freeman, H. (1962) The Portsmouth Mental Health Service 1926–1952; an historical note. The Medical Officer, March, 119–151.Google Scholar
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