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Trends in Consultant Appointments in Mental Handicap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Thomas L. Pilkington
Thomas L. Pilkington*
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds
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The DHSS/College recommended establishment for consultant posts in the psychiatry of mental handicap is one whole-time equivalent per 200,000 population.1 In 1982 the theoretical average in the English∗ regions was 1:321,000, varying between 1:153,000 (South West Thames) and 1:620,000 (North West). There were, however, 41 vacant posts, 19 of which were occupied by locums,2 so the actual substantive average was 1:612,000. By 1983 the number of vacant posts had risen to 49 and the substantive consultant/population ratios varied between 1:202,000 (South Western) and 1:2,170,000 (North Western).3

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 10 , Issue 12 , December 1986 , pp. 346 - 347
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