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‘The Last Resort’ – the influence of a television programme on referrals to a national unit for affective disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

A. D. Hodgkiss ,
A. L. Malizia  and
P. K. Bridges
A. D. Hodgkiss
Affiliation:
United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals (University of London) and The Geoffrey Knight National Unit for Affective Disorders, Brook General Hospital, London SE18
A. L. Malizia
Affiliation:
St Thomas's Hospital, London SE1
P. K. Bridges
Affiliation:
UMDS and The Geoffrey Knight National Unit for Affective Disorders, Brook General Hospital, London SE18
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On 28 March 1990 a BBC television programme in the ‘QED’ series was broadcast entitled ‘The Last Resort’. It sympathetically showed the life of a woman with a treatment resistant affective disorder and later presented some aspects of her treatment at this unit, including a stereotactic subcaudate tractotomy (SST) operation. As a result of this programme a number of patients wrote to us and this report compares referrals arising in this way with a sample of referrals to the unit through the usual channels.

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Audit in practice
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 10 , October 1993 , pp. 604 - 605
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