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Setting up a new regional child and family psychiatry unit: the involvement of referrers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Michelle Park
Affiliation:
Collingham Gardens, Child and Family Psychiatry Unit, 5 Collingham Gardens, London SW5 0HR
Arturo Langa
Affiliation:
Collingham Gardens, Child and Family Psychiatry Unit, 5 Collingham Gardens, London SW5 0HR
Helen Likierman
Affiliation:
Collingham Gardens, Child and Family Psychiatry Unit, 5 Collingham Gardens, London SW5 0HR
Christopher Evered
Affiliation:
Collingham Gardens, Child and Family Psychiatry Unit, 5 Collingham Gardens, London SW5 0HR
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The North West Thames Regional Health Authority rationalised its in-patient service in 1989 to fund an eight-bedded five day unit for children under 13 years of age at Collingham Gardens. Riverside Health Authority's District Child Psychiatric Day Unit was also relocated to provide ten places primarily for pre-adolescent children. The unit is staffed by a multidisciplinary team of child workers, nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers, and a psychotherapist, social worker and speech therapist.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991

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