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Services for the severe mentally ill – a planning blight

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

S. R. Hirsch*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, London W6 8RP
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The College has become increasingly concerned about the failure to achieve what has for many years been a reasonable policy for the chronic mentally ill. This paper will outline the significant effect that the blight in provision of services for this group of patients has had on mental health services as a whole, the extent of the shortfall and the effect on the patients themselves.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

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