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Labour intensive
- Authors:
- FORD Richard, RYAN Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 23.1.97, 1996, pp.26-29.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on a study into the effectiveness of intensive community support for people with long-standing mental illness.
Guardianship
- Author:
- WATSON Pam
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 78, December 1996, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- MIND
An article by the Mental Health Act Commissioner Catherine Grimshaw in Open Mind No. 76 discussed the possible benefits of the little-used 'guardianship' provision of the Mental Health Act and set out the criteria for its use. In this article the author offers further instances of the helpful use of guardianship provision and also explains the context necessary for success.
The role of primary care in community care services
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Scottish Office. National Health Service in Scotland. CRAG Working Group on Mental Illness
- Publisher:
- HMSO/Great Britain. Scottish Office. National Health Service in Scotland
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 55p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Report outlining issues concerned with the effective delivery of primary care services in the context of current community care legislation. While recognising the diversity of service provision the report recommends a locally co-ordinated approach to the delivery of community care by primary care teams and general practitioners. Focuses in particular on the delivery of services to people with mental health problems.
Asylum in the community
- Editors:
- CARRIER John, TOMLINSON Dylan
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 238p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Based on an empirical examination of psychiatric care in the past and present with an international focus. Critically assesses the concept of asylum and shows how it can be operationalised for services outside the hospital. Uses this analysis to establish the key elements of asylum that should be considered in developing contemporary community services for people with mental health problems.
The role of primary care in community care services: executive summary
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Scottish Office. National Health Service in Scotland. CRAG Working Group on Mental Illness
- Publisher:
- HMSO/Great Britain. Scottish Office. National Health Service in Scotland
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Executive summary of a report outlining issues concerned with the effective delivery of primary care services for people with mental health problems in Scotland in the context of current community care legislation.
Public opinion about preparation required before closing psychiatric hospitals
- Author:
- REDA Sawsan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 5(4), October 1996, pp.407-420.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Discusses the results of a study designed to provide data about local residents' attitudes towards closing psychiatric hospitals and opening mental health facilities in their area.
Reasoning the needs
- Authors:
- FORD Richard, WARNER Leslie
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 30.5.96, 1996, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Care for people with mental health problems is supposed to be needs-led. In this article the authors describe one method of establishing levels of needs which may be widely applicable.
Youth opinions about the ex-mentally ill in Hong Kong
- Authors:
- NG Petrus, CHAN Raymond
- Journal article citation:
- Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work, 6(1), March 1996, pp.16-29.
- Publisher:
- Times Academic
Community care has been adopted as the principal service delivery strategy to various target groups, especially the mentally ill, in Hong Kong. The success or failure of community care services depends upon the input and support from the formal sector, the informal sector and the interweaving between the two. This paper reports on youth attitudes, acceptance, views on integration and perceptions of the ex-mentally ill. However, a substantial majority of respondents still maintain a "no opinion" attitude.
The community of strangers: supervision and the new right
- Author:
- ATKINSON Jacqueline
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 4(2), March 1996, pp.122-125.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament on 17 November 1994 introduced the Mental Health (Supervised Discharge) Bill which will seek to strengthen the powers of supervision for those detailed under the 1983 Mental Health Act. The debate over the legal control of people with mental health illness, which has previously focussed on confinement in hospital, now has to consider whether legal control over people living in the community, including supervision registers and supervised discharge, is acceptable. This article illustrated the issues involved in this debate.
All talk and no action
- Author:
- DICKSON Niall
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 1.2.96, 1996, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
It is 35 years since Enoch Powell launched the idea of community care. This article traces the political history of care in the community for the mentally ill, which the author views as one of political failure and neglect.