Psychiatric Bulletin (1994) 18: 77-79. doi: 10.1192/pb.18.2.77
© 1994 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Care programme approach: the experience in bath
Maria Broughton, Senior Registrar in Old Age psychiatry and
Paul Divall, Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry
St Martin's Hospital, Midford Road, Bath, BA2 5RP
The care programme approach was developed to ensure that patients in the community receive the health and social care they need. It pre-empted the philosophy and practice of care management and can form the core. There are several strengths to this approach in that it permits a response to individual needs that may change over a period of time, and co-ordinates the contribution of all care agencies to make effective use of the available resources.
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