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Establishing a District Psychiatric Service without Psychiatric Trainees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

D. G. Kingdon  and
T. K. Szulecka
D. G. Kingdon
Affiliation:
Bassetlaw District General Hospital, Worksop, Nottinghamshire
T. K. Szulecka
Affiliation:
Bassetlaw District General Hospital, Worksop, Nottinghamshire
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The Report of the Social Services Committee of the House of Commons in 1981 (the ‘Short Report’) recommended the establishment of consultant posts without the support of trainee medical staff as part of a strategy to correct the situation where too many doctors occupied training posts for the number of consultant posts available.1 The Royal College of Psychiatrists has endorsed this policy,2 and the withdrawal of approval for training from an increasing number of hospitals around the country is leading rapidly to a situation where a large number of them need to look at alternative arrangements for providing medical cover. We would like to report the establishment and early development of such an arrangement based in a district general hospital.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 10 , Issue 12 , December 1986 , pp. 338 - 340
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