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Changes in referral rates following community psychiatric nurse attachment to a primary care team
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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Over the past three decades there has been a shift in emphasis from hospital based to community care of psychiatric patients. Central to this change has been the development of the community psychiatric nursing services and an increase in its numbers. Until recently community psychiatric nurses (CPNs) were almost entirely hospital based, working as members of a multidisciplinary team and providing follow-up for psychiatric patients.
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