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Psychiatric admission services for people with learning disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

I. Singh ,
M.I. Khalid  and
M.J. Dickinson
I. Singh
Affiliation:
Psychiatry of Mental Handicap, Leavesden Hospital, College Road, Abbots Langley, Herts. WD5 0NU Hillingdon Hospital, Field Heath Road, Uxbridge UB8 3NN
M.I. Khalid
Affiliation:
Psychiatry of Mental Handicap. Leavesden Hospital
M.J. Dickinson
Affiliation:
Psychiatry of Mental Handicap, Cell Barnes Hospital, Highfield Road, St Albans AL4 0RG
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As the care of people with learning disability has shifted from large Victorian hospitals to the community, provision for in-patient psychiatric treatment has, in many districts, also moved. Purpose built district or supra-district admission services represent the most common model. An alternative is the use of existing general psychiatric beds. In this article we describe the first 18 months of the Hillingdon district service where this latter model has been adopted.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , March 1994 , pp. 151 - 152
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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 © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

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