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Huddersfield (West) crisis intervention team: four years follow-up

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

N. Rao Punukollu*
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Huddersfield Crisis Intervention Team, St Luke's Hospital, Huddersfield HD4 5RQ
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The Huddersfield crisis intervention team began crisis intervention work after visiting well-established crisis intervention centres and reviewing the literature. In Huddersfield health district there are four adult psychiatrists, each covering a sector of about 54,000 population. At the time of the establishment of the crisis team, the health district was not sectorised. Since 1 February 1989 the district has been sectorised into four parts and the Huddersfield Crisis Intervention Team covers the Huddersfield West Sector

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991

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