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Psychiatric involvement in an Edinburgh hospice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John R. Mitchell
John R. Mitchell*
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Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
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Abstract

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Palliative care is a growing speciality. The terminally ill suffer high levels of psychiatric morbidity. The involvement of one senior registrar in setting up a liaison psychiatry service to a Marie Curie Hospice in special interest sessions is described. A liaison-consultation model developed and 29 referrals are described over six months.

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Trainees' forum
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , March 1998 , pp. 172 - 173
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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 © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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