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Psychiatric outreach clinics held in a general practice setting and community mental health centre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Charles Hindler
Charles Hindler*
Affiliation:
The Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG
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Over nine months, 57 consecutive newly referred and previous out-patient attenders to two community psychiatric out-patient clinics located in a deprived inner city area of London were interviewed to elicit demographic information, psychiatric details and obtain their views about their preferred location for the out-patient clinic. The majority (94%) preferred a community out-patient setting to a hospital out-patient clinic, with 76% preferring a community out-patient setting to a home assessment. The overall attendance rate was 89%. A 10% higher rate of attendance was found at the community mental health centre compared with the general practice and 15% higher rate for new referrals. Patients preferred to attend a psychiatric out-patient clinic based in the community. This suggests that introducing community-based psychiatric clinics would make a substantial improvement on the current high rates of non-attendance at hospital psychiatric out-patient clinics.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 19 , Issue 8 , August 1995 , pp. 470 - 474
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1995

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