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Should Community Psychiatrists be Specialists? A report on specialist status from the Working Party of the Social and Community Psychiatry Section

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

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Since the establishment of the Social and Community Section of the College, it has been apparent that differences exist in the viewpoints of its members on such questions as the role of the psychiatrist in the general community, how services are to be evaluated, what are the functional limits of psychiatry in the population and whether ‘community psychiatry’ is a unitary concept (and if so, whether it implies a generally accepted pattern of services, such as that proposed in 1975 in Better Services for the Mentally Ill).

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