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Survey of highly specialised psychiatric services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

J. Beasley ,
I. F. Brockington  and
A. Crisp
J. Beasley
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2QZ
I. F. Brockington*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2QZ
A. Crisp
Affiliation:
University of London, (Department of Mental Health Sciences), St Georges Hospital Medical School, Tooting, London SW17 ORE
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∗Correspondence
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It is in the nature of Health Services that there should exist a balance between the general and the specialised; between the treatment of common conditions with generally applicable techniques and the handling of more unusual diseases. Services which require scarce skills and treat less patients who need more time are expensive. In a cost-driven situation, these skills are likely to be constrained in favour of more generally applicable, lesser standards which are cheaper.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , March 1996 , pp. 129 - 130
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1996

References

Crisp, A. (1995) Who cares about the highly specialised services? Psychiatric Bulletin, 19, 657–659.Google Scholar
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