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Psychiatric Out-Patients in Plymouth—An Area Service Analysed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Neil Kessel ,
Christine Hassall ,
Robert Blair ,
John M. Gilroy ,
Francis Pilkington  and
Kenneth F. Weeks
Neil Kessel
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Edinburgh
Christine Hassall
Affiliation:
Moorhaven Hospital, Ivybridge, South Devon
Robert Blair
Affiliation:
Moorhaven Hospital, Ivybridge, South Devon
John M. Gilroy
Affiliation:
Moorhaven Hospital, Ivybridge, South Devon
Francis Pilkington
Affiliation:
Moorhaven Hospital, Ivybridge, South Devon
Kenneth F. Weeks
Affiliation:
Moorhaven Hospital, Ivybridge, South Devon
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Out-patient services in Britain for psychiatric patients have expanded enormously under the National Health Service. Well over half a million patients are seen at clinics annually. Concomitant with this increase the out-patient department has changed in function. No longer is it principally concerned with providing follow up and support for discharged mental hospital in-patients; instead, because of the greatly increased demand for psychiatric care for less severe disorders and under the influence of the movement for community care it now should play a part not at all subservient to the in-patient department. The clinic, properly run, should be an arena of treatment in its own right.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 111 , Issue 470 , January 1965 , pp. 10 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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