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European Union government legislation affecting psychiatric practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jim van Os  and
Jan Neeleman
Jim van Os*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF
Jan Neeleman
Affiliation:
Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
*
∗Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
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Although the process of psychiatric reform is taking place across Europe, national political, economic and historical factors determine to a large extent the manner and pace of its implementation as well as its final shape. The degree of centralisation of health care systems and the degree of prominence of primary care affect how efficiently change can be achieved. Various forms of professional resistance may, in different degrees in European countries, hamper the implementation of community care. The widely varying contexts in which psychiatric reform takes place throughout Europe, should provide a fertile area for future comparative research.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 7 , July 1994 , pp. 390 - 394
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

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