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Psychiatric Clinics in General Practice

Do They Reduce Admissions?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Paul Williams  and
Matteo Balestrieri
Paul Williams*
Affiliation:
General Practice Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry
Matteo Balestrieri
Affiliation:
General Practice Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry Cattedra di Psicologia Medica, Istituto di Psichiatria, Università di Verona
*
∗General Practice Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
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Abstract

General-practice-based psychiatric clinics have increased substantially in recent years. We investigated the influence on psychiatric admissions of this style of practice in England over an 18-year period. We utilised data from a previous survey concerned with this type of work (Strathdee & Williams, 1984) and compared them with figures on psychiatric admissions. Parts of the country in which there has been greater development of general-practice-based psychiatric clinics were also those in which there has been a steeper decrease in psychiatric admissions. Further analysis showed this to be due primarily to an effect on admission of non-psychotic patients.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 154 , Issue 1 , January 1989 , pp. 67 - 71
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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