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Brief Report: Decline in the Use of ECT: The York Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kumud Bhatnagar ,
Peter Kennedy  and
Stephen Morley
Kumud Bhatnagar
Affiliation:
High Royds Hospital, Menston, Ilkley
Peter Kennedy
Affiliation:
Bootham Park Hospital, York
Stephen Morley
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
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A national survey in 1980 drew attention to the wide variation in frequency with which electro-convulsive treatment was being used. Yorkshire Region was at the top of the league with three times the level of the Oxford Region which had the lowest rate. Since then a good deal more research has been published on the effectiveness and limitations of ECT.1–3 Other factors which might have influenced clinicians in their prescribing of this treatment include much stricter conditions in the 1983 Mental Health Act for giving ECT compulsorily, plenty of media comment which may have reduced its acceptability, the increasing confidence of general practitioners in prescribing antidepressant drug therapies, and the greater emphasis on community care.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 11 , Issue 9 , September 1987 , pp. 303 - 304
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