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A Survey of Liaison Psychiatry in the United Kingdom and Eire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Richard Mayou
Affiliation:
Warneford Hospital, Oxford (Chairman: College Liaison Psychiatry Group)
Geoffrey Lloyd
Affiliation:
Royal Free Hospital, London NW3 (Secretary: College Liaison Psychiatry Group)
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The recent formation of a Liaison Psychiatry Group within the College reflects the growing integration of psychiatry with other medical specialties in the general hospital. The Group was established to foster the development of psychiatry in relation to medical and surgical patients, including its clinical, teaching and research components. The title, Liaison Psychiatry, is not an ideal term but has become firmly established in other countries to denote that area of psychiatry where the psychiatrist has particular skills to contribute to the care of the physically ill, and to those in whom psychiatric disorder presents in somatic terms.1

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