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| Title: | Psychiatric services: present policies and problems |
| Authors: | Department of Health (DoH). Social Affairs Committee |
| Publisher: | Department of Health (DoH) |
| Issue Date: | 1978 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/247136 |
| Type: | Report |
| Language: | en |
| Description: | THE PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES
PRESENT POLICIES AND PROBLEMS
Present policies in regard to the psychiatric services may
be summarised under the following headings:
(i) Integration of the treatment of the mentally ill with other health services
Mainly in order to remove the traditional stigma associated
with mental illness there is now a well-established policy of
providing psychiatric units at general hospitals or in
association of general hospitals. All the proposed new
general hospitals or existing general hospitals s elected for
further development will have psychiatric units which will
generally be of the order of 40/50 beds and will also have
considerable provision for the treatment of day patients. The
aim is that all patients, except those who are obviously seriously
disturbed, will be admitted in the first instance to the general
hospitals. Most of them will receive all their residential
treatment there and will be discharged home and where necessary
continuing care will be given on a day attendance basis or by the various community services referred to later.There it is
clear that the patient requires long term residential care he
will be transferred to the district mental hospital. The
psychiatric unit will normally have a close association with
the mental hospital and will be seen as an element in a
comprehensive psychiatric service |
| Keywords: | PSYCHIATRIC CARE
HEALTH SERVICES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT |
| Appears in Collections: | DOH
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