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Comment on ‘Mental Handicap: Policies and Priorities’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Joan Bicknell
Joan Bicknell*
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St George's Hospital Medical School, London
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The mental handicap scene is changing but not as quickly as some would like. A constant stream of letters, consultative documents and booklets remind us of the various ways in which we can work together to create a service where the health care component is rationalized and the large hospitals are reduced in size. The services are changing, but there is variation in the pace of change and in the commitment to the joint planning process involved in such change.

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Psychiatry in the 1880s
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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 8 , Issue 5 , May 1984 , pp. 84 - 85
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1984

References

1 DHSS (1971) Better Services for the Mentally Handicapped, Cmnd 4683, Google Scholar
2 DHSS (1980) Mental Handicap: Progress, Problems and Priorities. A review of mental handicap services in England since the 1971 White Paper. Google Scholar
3 DHSS (1981) Care in Action: A handbook of Policies and Priorities for the Health and Personal Social Services in England. Google Scholar
4 DHSS (1981) Care in the Community: A Consultative Document on Moving Resources for Care in England. Google Scholar
5 DHSS (1983) Mental Handicap: Policies and Priorities. Google Scholar
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