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A psychiatric liaison service for a social services office

An unmet need, a useful innovation or an unnecessary inconvenience?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

William Grant  and
Anne Richardson
William Grant
Affiliation:
Newcastle General Hospital
Anne Richardson
Affiliation:
Clifton Mount Sub-office, Grainger Park Road, Newcastle upon Tyne
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Although there has been considerable interest into the amount of liaison work that general psychiatrists do with general practitioners in primary health care settings, and into the role that social workers can play in liaising with the primary health care team, less is known about the extent to which general psychiatrists have established liaison links with particular social services offices, what form the liaison takes and whether the liaison has worked satisfactorily.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 12 , Issue 11 , November 1988 , pp. 481 - 483
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