Abstract
The current trend towards community care for mentally handicapped people means that general practitioners have greater opportunities to meet mentally and multiply handicapped people living in the family home or in small units in the community. In addition, an increasing number of large long-stay mental handicap hospitals have delegated the reponsibility for primary care to local GPs, frequently employed as clinical assistants for this purpose. This is having the welcome effect of allowing the psychiatrist and the trainee in psychiatry to follow their particular interests and develop their own treatment skills.
Highlights
The current trend towards community care for mentally handicapped people means that general practitioners have greater opportunities to meet mentally and multiply handicapped people living in the family home or in small units in the community
An increasing number of large long-stay mental handicap hospitals have delegated the reponsibility for Drimary care to local G Ps, frequently employed as clinical assistants for this purpose
To remedy this situation in one London Borough, training for four G Ps in the Mental Handicap Service began in 1979, with six evenings devoted to the following topics: aetiology of mental handicap; epidemiology and prevention and mental handicap; patterns of care; additional handicaps; psychiatric illnesses and behaviour disorders; and treatment techniques
Summary
The current trend towards community care for mentally handicapped people means that general practitioners have greater opportunities to meet mentally and multiply handicapped people living in the family home or in small units in the community. Educational Programmesfor General Practitioners and Clinical Assistants in the Mental Handicap Service
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