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Mental health services in primary care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Skuse
David Skuse*
Affiliation:
Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK, email [email protected]
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In the UK, only 13% of people with long-term mental health problems are in employment, compared with 35% generally of people with a disability (Royal College of General Practitioners, 2005). Nearly 2.6 million individuals receive incapacity benefit and/or severe disability allowance and, of these, close to 1 million are claiming incapacity benefit due to mental ill health. The management of this enormous number of people – providing support to them and helping them get back into employment – is an issue that cannot be addressed adequately by our specialist mental health services. Accordingly, other models of service delivery need to be considered. The three thematic papers in this issue look at this issue from the perspective of three highly contrasting societies.

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Thematic Papers - Introduction
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International Psychiatry , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 3
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References

Royal College of General Practitioners (2005) Position Statement: Mental Health and Primary Care. RCGP. Available at http://www.rcgp.org.uk/PDF/clinspec_printed%20version%20mental%20health.pdf (accessed November 2009).Google Scholar
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