Service innovations: an Australian approach to community care — the Northern Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team
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The recent White paper, Modernising Mental Health Services, recommended the provision of home treatment teams for acute mental illness in the UK and such services are not widespread and have been the subject of recent debate.Abstract:
The recent White paper, Modernising Mental Health Services , recommended the provision of home treatment teams for acute mental illness ([Department of Health, 1998][1]). Such services are not widespread in the UK and have been the subject of recent debate ([Smyth et al , 2000][2]). In Australia,read more
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The home treatment enigma
M G Smyth,J Hoult +1 more
TL;DR: The issues, real and imagined, that are behind the resistance to treatment at home are examined, and one that they and their carers generally prefer, are examined.
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Modernising mental health services.
TL;DR: In Modernising Mental Health Services, the new national mental health strategy for England announced in December, the government lays out detailed plans for reforming general psychiatric services, and places them in the context of its wider NHS reforms.
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