Bexley Hospital Research Articles

Harry Kaye Rose (LRCP, LRCS, DPH, DPM, FRCPsych): Formerly Consultant Psychiatrist, Greenwich District Hospital and Bexley Hospital

![Figure][1] A spell of service in the Merchant Navy provided Harry Kaye Rose, who has died aged 89 years, with the eye-opener that led him to develop an interest in alcoholism and a realisation of its importance to psychiatry. He worked closely with Dr Max Glatt in the 1950s when the study

The Bexley Hospital population nine years on

A survey was undertaken at the beginning of 1995 of all the patients in the Bexley Hospital. Demographic information was compared with the findings obtained from a previous survey conducted in 1986. Results indicated that during the 9–year interval, changes had occurred in the characteristics of the population. Most markedly, the group was younger than that originally studied, and the total proportion of legally detained patients had increased. If such trends are representative of the country at large, adequate planning must be made to cater for an ever-evolving patient group.

Continuing Care Hospital Beds in the UK

International Journal of Geriatric PsychiatryVolume 12, Issue 2 p. 271-271 Correspondence Continuing Care Hospital Beds in the UK ADRIAN TRELOAR, Corresponding Author ADRIAN TRELOAR Bexley Hospital, Kent, UKBexley Hospital, KENT, UKSearch for more papers by this author ADRIAN TRELOAR, Corresponding Author ADRIAN TRELOAR Bexley Hospital, Kent, UKBexley Hospital, KENT, UKSearch for more papers by this author First published: 04 December 1998 https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1166(199702)12:2<271::AID-GPS556>3.0.CO;2-KAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume12, Issue2February 1997Pages 271-271 RelatedInformation

Delirium and Dementia; Are They Distinct?

Journal of the American Geriatrics SocietyVolume 44, Issue 8 p. 1001-1002 Delirium and Dementia; Are They Distinct? A.J.D. Macdonald MD, FRCPsych, Corresponding Author A.J.D. Macdonald MD, FRCPsych Hither Green Hospital, London, and †Bexley Hospital, Bexley, Kent, UK.(Guys Campus), Hither Green Hospital, Hither Green Lane, London SE13 6RU, UK.Search for more papers by this authorA. Treloar MRCP, MRPCPsych, MRCGP, A. Treloar MRCP, MRPCPsych, MRCGP Hither Green Hospital, London, and †Bexley Hospital, Bexley, Kent, UK.Search for more papers by this author A.J.D. Macdonald MD, FRCPsych, Corresponding Author A.J.D. Macdonald MD, FRCPsych Hither Green Hospital, London, and †Bexley Hospital, Bexley, Kent, UK.(Guys Campus), Hither Green Hospital, Hither Green Lane, London SE13 6RU, UK.Search for more papers by this authorA. Treloar MRCP, MRPCPsych, MRCGP, A. Treloar MRCP, MRPCPsych, MRCGP Hither Green Hospital, London, and †Bexley Hospital, Bexley, Kent, UK.Search for more papers by this author First published: August 1996 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1996.tb01880.xCitations: 21Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume44, Issue8August 1996Pages 1001-1002 RelatedInformation

Aliens and Alienists

Criminal Behaviour and Mental HealthVolume 1, Issue 3 p. 301-302 BOOK REVIEW Aliens and Alienists Alison Reed, Alison Reed Senior Registrar Bexley Hospital, UKSearch for more papers by this author Alison Reed, Alison Reed Senior Registrar Bexley Hospital, UKSearch for more papers by this author First published: September 1991 https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.1991.1.3.301AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume1, Issue3September 1991Pages 301-302 RelatedInformation

Transfer between psychiatric hospitals: symptom, social function and patient attitude changes in long-term patients

This study followed up a ward group of long-term, mainly schizophrenic patients after transfer from Bexley Hospital, a large institution in South East London, to small purpose built rehabilitation unit in a distant hospital, and used a matched control group of patients remaining in Bexley Hospital for comparison. There was no pattern of symptomatic improvement or deterioration with time in either group, but social functioning and behaviour did improve in those transferred. The patients transferred were well informed about the process, became more favourable about the medical advice offered to them but remained sure, as did patients in the control group, that they wanted to leave hospital eventually. We suggest that the successful transfer of patients between hospitals must involve clear information to prepare patients and relatives, the consent of patients, staff enthusiasm, the provision of a full range of services after transfer, including occupational therapy, and staff continuity.

Horticultural Therapy: A Growing Concern, Part 2

Part 2 takes a general look at some useful points which should be taken into account when considering the use of horticultural therapy as an assessment and treatment medium with any client group. The establishment of a horticultural therapy unit as part of the Work Skills Assessment Unit at Bexley Hospital, Kent, is appraised by two case studies and the feedback from several patients.

Psychiatric aspects of the exchange visit between Bexley Hospital and Centre Hospitalier Specialisé de Ville-Evrard

The Centre Hospitalier Specialise de Ville-Evrard is situated 17 kms from the centre of Paris and serves an area of approximately a quarter of the north-eastern outskirts of the city. I visited as one of a multi-disciplinary party of 20. The visit took place over five days and returned their visit to Bexley Hospital, Kent in South East England, which took place in November 1989. English lessons take place in the hospital as part of the hospital's responsibility for continued education for its employees and they had initiated the visit to England to improve the standard of their English.

Andrew Croyden Smith, Consultant Psychiatrist to Greenwich District Hospital and Bexley Hospital, Honorary Consultant and Senior Lecturer, Guy's Hospital Medical School, London

Andrew Smith died at his home in Beckenham on 26 December 1986.

The Village Game

This article describes a board game developed in the Crescent Occupational Therapy Department, Bexley Hospital, for use with psychogeriatric patients. The objectives include socialization, mental stimulation and orientation, and the game has been found useful for those difficult to motivate.

Neuropsychological deficits in alcoholics: the relative contributions of gender and drinking history.

SummaryAlcoholic inpatients at Bexley Hospital Treatment Unit were selected for cognitive assessment on a routine ‘consecutive admission’ basis. The male and female alcoholic groups performed significantly worse on the cognitive tests than matched controls.The ‘consecutive admission’ samples of 72 males and 33 females differed widely on drinking history data; males having significantly severer histories. The females performed worse on tests of immediate recall, and psychomotor speed. This performance difference endured whether the male and female groups were equated for drinking history differences statistically (by co‐variance analysis), or by selection criteria (subject matching).The finding is discussed in the context of a greater vulnerability in women to the deleterious effects of alcohol, while noting the methodological complexities which prevent firm conclusions about causality. One possible conclusion is that females are more susceptible than males to the harmful effects of prolonged heavy drinking on cognitive performance. Alternatively, it may be that those females who become alcoholic are ‘at risk’ in some unspecified way which is reflected in the present performance differences.

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY OF THE BRAIN IN CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM

Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE58 AF, and Bexley Hospital, Bexley, Kent, U.K.

Trials of an Approval Team Convener

I have been a member of the Southern Division Approval Panel since its inception in 1972. Thereafter I visited, with other panel members, two or three hospitals per year. I became Convener in 1978 and in my four years in office I visited over 35 hospitals, although these were not all separate visits. I look after a catchment area in South-East London, with all the in-patient services at Bexley Hospital. It is entirely my personal opinion that if I was not involved with a district service I probably would not have accepted the invitation to be a convener. I do not think I would necessarily have been a worse convener, but I might have been rather less credible.

Criteria to be used in the selection of clinical areas for basic nurse training

The problem of establishing criteria to be considered when selecting clinical areas for basic nurse training was investigated by the Teaching team from Bexley Hospital Nurse Education Centre, Kent. Establishments involved in training personnel in occupations other than nursing were examined and evaluated in order to see if comparisons could be made. Unfortunately the establishments chosen provided little information in respect of learner placement in nursing. Contributions to the nursing literature in respect of the subject being considered were sparse, but articles by Martin (1976), Roper (1976), Schröck (1973) and Strohmann (1977) were interesting and of considerable value. Whilst the project at Bexley involved examination of the more obvious criteria used in the selection of training areas, considerable attention was paid to the attitudes of clinical nursing personnel towards nurse education and training. Replies to an educational questionnaire devised by the team revealed many significant differences between the attitudes of those nurses involved in basic nurse training in the hospital's wards and departments when compared with those of other teaching and service personnel. A checklist of criteria was ultimately complied and it was suggested that a further comparative study emphasizing the attitude component of this project should be made in 12 months time.

Schizophreniform psychosis among epileptics in a mental hospital.

Several years have passed since the last study of the psychiatric abnormalities shown by epileptic patients in an English mental hospital (2), during which time detailed information has become available about the development of schizophreniform states in some chronic epileptics (3). This study was undertaken to examine the mental state of patients with epilepsy resident in Bexley Hospital, using a semi-structured psychiatric interview technique (6). The criteria used for the definition of epilepsy were those of Gunn and Fenton (1)—a history of at least three epileptic attacks in a two-year-period, and continuation of anti-convulsant therapy if the period did not immediately precede the time of examination.

Psychological theories as ways of relating to people*

British Journal of Medical PsychologyVolume 43, Issue 3 p. 241-244 Psychological theories as ways of relating to people* D. BANNISTER, D. BANNISTER Bexley Hospital, Dartford Heath, Bexley, Kent.Search for more papers by this author D. BANNISTER, D. BANNISTER Bexley Hospital, Dartford Heath, Bexley, Kent.Search for more papers by this author First published: September 1970 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8341.1970.tb02122.xCitations: 1 † Presented at the Symposium on the Person in Psychology and Psychotherapy, Second International Congress of Social Psychiatry, London, August 1969. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume43, Issue3September 1970Pages 241-244 RelatedInformation

The Word-in-Context test as a measure of conceptualization in schizophrenics with and without thought disorder.

British Journal of Medical PsychologyVolume 40, Issue 3 p. 253-260 The Word-in-Context test as a measure of conceptualization in schizophrenics with and without thought disorder PHILLIDA SALMON, PHILLIDA SALMON M.R.C. Research Project, Bexley Hospital, Dartford Heath, Bexley, Kent.Search for more papers by this authorJUDITH BRAMLEY, JUDITH BRAMLEY Formerly Clinical Psychologist, Bexley Hospital.Search for more papers by this authorA. S. PRESLY, A. S. PRESLY Clinical Psychologist, Bexley Hospital, Dartford Heath, Bexley, Kent.Search for more papers by this author PHILLIDA SALMON, PHILLIDA SALMON M.R.C. Research Project, Bexley Hospital, Dartford Heath, Bexley, Kent.Search for more papers by this authorJUDITH BRAMLEY, JUDITH BRAMLEY Formerly Clinical Psychologist, Bexley Hospital.Search for more papers by this authorA. S. PRESLY, A. S. PRESLY Clinical Psychologist, Bexley Hospital, Dartford Heath, Bexley, Kent.Search for more papers by this author First published: September 1967 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8341.1967.tb00576.xCitations: 5 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume40, Issue3September 1967Pages 253-260 RelatedInformation

The Range of Mental Reaction States Influenced by Cardiazol Convulsions

In a 15-minute contribution it is only possible to deal with a single aspect of cardiazol therapy. I am confining myself to some observations on the diversity of mental reactions influenced by cardiazol convulsions. My remarks are based on approximately 130 complete courses and a number of incomplete courses given at Bexley Hospital during the last 12 months.