Community mental health teams in London are being increasingly stretched
- 26 April 1997
- Vol. 314 (7089) , 1276
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.314.7089.1276
Abstract
Editor—Max Marshall's editorial on the report London's Mental Health correctly identifies the unique set of socioeconomic problems facing the capital, and its correspondingly high levels of mental illness.1 2 He rightly draws attention to the crisis and threatened collapse of the city's mental health services, which are faced with rising bed occupancy, increasing violence, and the haemorrhage of funds through extracontractual referrals and the provision of hotel services. Marshall writes that the …Keywords
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