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What Should an Ideal Emergency Psychiatry Service be Like?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Steven White
Steven White*
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Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
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At a time of financial stringency, it may seem perverse to speculate about the ideal. Nevertheless, recent experience of working in the psychiatry emergency room (ER) of a large teaching hospital in Texas set me thinking about the requirements for a really satisfactory emergency psychiatry service (eps); one which would run smoothly and be acceptable to the clients, their families and the agencies involved in making referrals; one the staff running it would feel comfortable with and get satisfaction from working in; one which would provide a comprehensive and really adequate service, rather than just a finger in the dike.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 11 , Issue 10 , October 1987 , pp. 326 - 329
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