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Making community based comprehensive mental health services work

Folkestone Community Mental Health Centre, 8 Radnor Park Avenue, Folkestone, Kent CT19 5BW

Maresa Ness, Service Manager

Lewin Road, Community Mental Health Centre, West Lambeth Community Care (NHS) Trust, 55 Lewin Road, London SW16 6JZ

Tom Craig, Professor of Community Psychiatry

UMDS, St Thomas' Hospital, London SE1

Gary McNamee, Senior Manager

South Western Hospital, Pulross Road, London SW9

^* Correspondence

There has been until recently a dearth of descriptions of locally targeted community mental health services. Such a service, developed by changing a traditional psychiatric service in an inner setting, is described. The service addresses the needs of those with predominantly severe/enduring mental health problems, by increasingly using research based treatments in an ordinary district setting.