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Setting up a community support team for the severely mentally ill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Harry Doyle  and
Tom Craig
Harry Doyle*
Affiliation:
Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow HA1 3UJ (formerly Senior Registrar, St Thomas' Hospital)
Tom Craig
Affiliation:
Department of Community Psychiatry, St Thomas' Hospital, London SE1
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

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This article describes the process of setting up a community support team for the severely mentally ill, and the challenges this posed. As this method of service delivery has been infrequently described, it is hoped our experience may be instructive to others.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , April 1995 , pp. 223 - 225
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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, 1995

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