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Calculating the medical time required in the psychiatry of mental handicap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

J. Piachaud
J. Piachaud*
Affiliation:
St Mary's Hospital Medical School
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Address for correspondence: Paddington Community Hospital, 7a Woodfield Road, London W9 2BB
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A method for estimating the psychiatric manpower needs of a district has been described in the Bulletin (Watson, 1986), and while the data presented in that article were for general psychiatry the approach to this issue can be modified for specialist services.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 9 , September 1989 , pp. 486 - 489
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