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Mental health nursing: issues and roles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kevin Gournay
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1994 saw the publication of the report of the Mental Health Nursing Review Team (Department of Health, 1994). This report signified the end of a three year process where mental health nursing was examined from the perspectives of practice, education, research and management. The last review of mental health nursing took place in 1968, but since that time there have been enormous changes in our thinking about mental illness, in the delivery of services and a number of very exciting developments in treatment. The review process included the widest possible consultation with other professionals, user organisations, patients, relatives and carers. It also co-opted expert advisers and took written and oral evidence, and visited clinical services across England. There were altogether 42 recommendations and during this article reference will be made to a number of the most important of these.

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , May 1996 , pp. 103 - 108
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1996 

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