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Inter-agency collaboration in the closure of psychiatric hospitals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Andrew Nocon
Affiliation:
Centre for Primary Care Research, University of Manchester M14 5NP
Dylan Tomlinson
Affiliation:
Team for the Assessment of Psychiatric Services, Friern Hospital, London N11
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The needs of people with mental health problems transcend agency boundaries. Service-planning, however, has often been carried out within the confines of individual agencies. Although inter-agency collaboration has been an integral part of official policy since 1974 (DHSS, 1974), joint planning has often been limited to the allocation of centrally-earmarked joint finance (DHSS, 1976). In the ten years following the introduction of joint planning, few authorities prepared, let alone attempted to implement, any broader joint strategies.

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