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Developing case management for the long-term mentally ill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Richard Ford
Affiliation:
Case Management Project Research and Development for Psychiatry, 134–138 Borough High Street, London SE1 1LB
Alan Beadsmoore
Affiliation:
Guy's Hospital Trust (formerly Lewisham and North Southwark Health Authority)
Paul Norton
Affiliation:
North Worstershire Health Authority, Currently Lecturer, Research Methods and Information Technology, University of Humberside
Anna Cooke
Affiliation:
Hastings and Rother NHS Trust (formerly Hastings Health Authority)
Julie Repper
Affiliation:
Nottingham Health Authority, Currently Lecturer, Department of Nursing Studies, University of Nottingham
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Mental health policies and the focus of psychiatric services have shifted over the last three decades from hospital to community care. Greater care in the community and reduced psychiatric bed numbers have contributed to the discharge or non-admission of many patients with severe and persistent disorders who formerly would have been cared for in hospital. Increasing numbers of the chronically ill in the community will necessitate the development of systems to provide continuous and integrated services for such people.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1993

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