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Coordinating care: Homepack: The use of a computer in community care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

D. N. Martindale
Affiliation:
Coordinating Care Project, Community Psychiatry Research Unit
M. Ness
Affiliation:
Coordinating Care Project, Community Psychiatry Research Unit
T. H. Turner
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Day Hospital
J. Wright
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Day Hospital, Hackney Hospital, London E9
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The project described in this paper developed from a DHSS funded scheme which was part of the Government's ‘Helping the Community to Care’ initiative. This was aimed at meeting a deficiency in the community — the lack of a coordinated system of after care for people suffering from long-term mental illness. The Mental Health Division of the DHSS described it thus.

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References

1 Williamson, P. M. (1984) Mental Health Division, DHSS, in letter to Dr J. Reed, Director, Community Psychiatry Research Unit, 21 December 1984.Google Scholar
2 Mind, (1983) Common Concern. MIND's manifesto for a new Mental Health Service. London: MIND.Google Scholar
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