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A New Pattern in Day Hospital Development the West Middlesex Day Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Brice Pitt  and
Morris Markowe
Brice Pitt
Affiliation:
St. Clement's Hospital, London, E.3
Morris Markowe
Affiliation:
Springfield Hospital, Upper Tooting, London, S.W.17
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Slowly but surely the emphasis of the mental health service is moving from the mental hospital into the community which it serves. The trend of these community developments can be seen as far back as the establishment of psychiatric out-patient clinics at general hospitals under the Mental Treatment Act, 1930, together with arrangements for after care, and continued by mental hospitals and regional hospital boards since the advent of the National Health Service. While the new era in British psychiatry awaits the implementation by local health authorities of their mandatory functions under the Mental Health Act, 1959, much can still be done within the hospital services proper to shift the emphasis into the community. One such method is described in this study of a Day Hospital developed within a large general hospital.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 109 , Issue 458 , January 1963 , pp. 29 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1963 

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