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A community mental health team for the elderly: a survey of GPs' views on the service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rebecca Eastley  and
Mike Nowers
Rebecca Eastley*
Affiliation:
Mental Health
Mike Nowers
Affiliation:
Psychiatry of Old Age Clinical Research Unit, Cossham Memorial Hospital, Lodge Road, Kingswood, Bristol BS15 1LF
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

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This paper reports the results of a postal survey conducted to ascertain the views of general practitioners on the service provided by a newly established community mental health team for the elderly. The possible implications of GP fundholding for specialist provision of mental health services are discussed.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , February 1997 , pp. 88 - 90
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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