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Attitudes to developments in community psychiatry among general practitioners

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Stephen Stansfeld
Stephen Stansfeld*
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Princess Alexandra Hospital, Hamstel Road, Harlow, Essex CM20 1QX
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As general practitioners (GPs) are clinically responsible for the majority of recognised psychiatric morbidity in the community, they have an important role to play in deciding the shape of new community psychiatric services. This paper reports the results of a self-completion postal questionnaire survey of Harlow GPs' views on how community psychiatric services should be developed. Harlow is a mature new town (population 79,521: 1981 census) north east of London, served by a typical DGH department of psychiatry with in-patient wards and a day hospital, outreach services being provided largely by community psychiatric nurses (CPNs). GPs work in group practices in purpose-built health centres.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 9 , September 1991 , pp. 542 - 543
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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, 1991

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