A New Pattern in Day Hospital Development the West Middlesex Day Hospital
- 29 January 1963
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 109 (458) , 29-36
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.109.458.29
Abstract
Slowly but surely the emphasis of the mental health service is moving from the mental hospital into the community which it serves. The trend of these community developments can be seen as far back as the establishment of psychiatric out-patient clinics at general hospitals under the Mental Treatment Act, 1930, together with arrangements for after care, and continued by mental hospitals and regional hospital boards since the advent of the National Health Service. While the new era in British psychiatry awaits the implementation by local health authorities of their mandatory functions under the Mental Health Act, 1959, much can still be done within the hospital services proper to shift the emphasis into the community. One such method is described in this study of a Day Hospital developed within a large general hospital.Keywords
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