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General medical care of long-stay psychiatric patients: a pilot study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Danny Allen  and
Sally Pugh-Williams
Danny Allen
Affiliation:
Barrow Hospital, Barrow Gurney, Bristol BS19 3SG
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Studies have shown that significant physical morbidity exist within psychiatric units (Honig et al, 1989), yet general medical care is often left in the hands of psychiatrists who may not always be the most appropriate people to deliver it (Colenda et al, 1988). The new general practice contract places certain obligations on the general practitioner (GP) with regard to his or her patients, especially the elderly, yet these provisions do not extend to many of our patients. Our study looks at four areas of health care and examines how they are delivered to long-stay patients in a district pyschiatric unit with no GP input.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 6 , June 1992 , pp. 332 - 334
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

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