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Patterns of mental health care in a seaside lodging house

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Barnes  and
Greg Wilkinson
John Barnes
Affiliation:
The London Hospital Medical College Academic Department of Psychiatry, Runwell and Basildon Hospitals, Runwell Hospital, Wickford, Essex SS11 7QE
Greg Wilkinson
Affiliation:
The London Hospital Medical College Academic Department of Psychiatry, London E1 2AD
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Much of the medical care of the long-term mentally ill falls to the general practitioner (Wilkinson et al, 1985) and, for example, a survey in Buckinghamshire showed that these patients consult their general practitioner (GP) twice as often as mental health services. Lodging house dwellers are known to show an increased prevalence of major mental illness and to suffer much secondary social handicap, presenting a challenge to helping services of all disciplines. For this reason we chose a lodging house in which to explore further the relationships between mental illness and residents' present contact with their GP, mental health services and other local sources of help.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , February 1993 , pp. 82 - 83
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