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Attitudes towards community mental health care of residents in North London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sawsan Reda*
Affiliation:
Department of Nursing, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 5XH
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Abstract

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The closure of large psychiatric hospitals and the opening of community-based mental health facilities is a central part of British health policy for the care of people with mental illness. The North East Thames Regional Health Authority's (NETRHA) psychiatric hospitals closure plan started in 1985. As part of this a programme was established to assess the closure process (Leff, 1993). This study was carried out between 1988 and 1992 and was designed to study the reactions of the public to the hospital closure decision (Reda, 1993).

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1995

References

Leff, J. (1993) Evaluating the transfer of care from psychiatric hospitals to district-based services. British Journal of Psychiatry, 162 (suppl. 19), 6.Google Scholar
Reda, S. (1993) The Discharge of Long-Stay Psychiatric Patients Into the Community: A Study of the Patients, the Staff and the Public. PhD thesis, Institute of Psychiatry, London University.Google Scholar
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