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Psychiatric day hospital discharge summaries

An evaluation by general practitioners of a new model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kim Shamash ,
George Ikkos ,
Shamil Wanigaratne  and
Maurice Greenberg
George Ikkos
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University College Hospital
Shamil Wanigaratne
Affiliation:
James Pringle House, Middlesex Hospital, London W1
Maurice Greenberg
Affiliation:
Jules Thorn Day Hospital, St Pancras Hospital, London NW1 and University College Hospital, Gower Street, London WC1
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With the increasing emphasis on community care (Turner, 1986) the psychiatric day hospital has been seen as an alternative (Tantam, 1985) or as a complement (Tyrer, 1985) to in-patient care. Associated with this is the development of new styles of working with patients such as the ‘multidisciplinary team’ with those looking after individual patients being referred to as ‘key workers’ (Watts & Bennett, 1983). In our day hospital the keyworker has considerable responsibility for history-taking, organising a treatment programme and communicating with other professionals, including writing the discharge summary.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 11 , November 1989 , pp. 609 - 610
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