Abstract
The 1975 White Paper Better Services for the Mentally Ill recognises different roles for day hospitals, day centres and the voluntary sector in the provision of psychiatric day care. Two broad client groups, needing short-term support or long-term care, are described. However, Vaughn (1983 and 1985) and Wilkinson (1984) have reviewed lack of co-ordinated planning in the provision of services and the placement of clients. Carter (1981) in a major survey of day care, showed that in many cases it was difficult to differentiate between day hospital and day centre services or client groups.
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Japan needs to have more international support on these issues
Totsuka which was the keynote address for the 9th annual Congress ofthe Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and ajoint Congress of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Melbourne, Australia (October 1988) and published by the International Commission of Jurists in the Review No 42 (June 1989)
The project has an Acute Psychiatric Day Hospital at the Newtown branch of Worcester Royal Infirmary, the Studdert-Kennedy Social Services day centre, and the MIND day centre run by the mental health charity
Summary
MARGARET DU FEU, Senior Registrar in Psychiatry, All Saints Hospital, Birmingham B18 5SD. The 1975 White Paper Better Services/or the Mentally III recognises different roles for day hospitals, day centres and the voluntary sector in the provision of psychiatric day care. Carter (1981) in a major survey of day care, showed that in many cases it was difficult to differentiate between day hospital and day centre services or client groups. The project has an Acute Psychiatric Day Hospital at the Newtown branch of Worcester Royal Infirmary, the Studdert-Kennedy Social Services day centre, and the MIND day centre run by the mental health charity. Each of these facilities is used by clients on a full or part-time basis. The hypothesis the survey intended to test was that there is no difference between the client groups attending these three facilities in terms of demographic details, psychiatric diagnosis, route of referral and length of stay
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