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Mental illness in the community: the pathway to psychiatric care
- Authors:
- GOLDBERG David, HUXLEY Peter
- Publisher:
- Tavistock
- Publication year:
- 1980
- Pagination:
- 201p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Psychopathology and quality of life among mentally ill patients in the community - British and US samples compared
- Authors:
- WARNER Richard, HUXLEY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 163, October 1993, pp.505-509.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Sixty-nine mentally ill patients in treatment in an intensive community support system in Boulder, Colorado, were evaluated using the same measures of quality of life and psychopathology as were used in assessing mentally ill patients in hospital and community facilities in Manchester. Psychopathology was greater in the Boulder samples, but quality of life scores were no worse for the American patients. The relationship of these findings to systems of care and availability of psychiatric hospital beds is discussed.
The impact of community health reform on service users: a cohort study
- Authors:
- BARR Wally, HUXLEY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(2), March 1999, pp.129-139.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on a study designed to assess the impact of recent reforms on service users. The functioning of users of community mental health services in a North Wales town was assessed before the advent of two significant service changes - the establishment of a local Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and the introduction of the main community care reforms in April 1993. Results found the establishment of a CMHT was associated with a temporary fall in social functioning, quality of life and satisfaction with services and there was no evidence to conclude that organisational reforms had led to an improvement in user outcomes in the medium term. Concludes that future mental health reorganisation should be based on the evidence of research which includes an assessment of the impact of reforms on service users.