NHS indemnity for psychiatric clinics held in GPs' surgeries

Psychiatric Clinics for Children

L. Witmer. Commonwealth Fund. $2.50. Despite the experience of humanity since time began of the importance of " mind " in relationship to " body public imagination has not yet been stirred to any great extent, at least in this country, by the greatest of modern adventures in the field of human welfare, that of psychiatry. This is perhaps scarcely surprising in that medicine has tended to deal w...

Psychiatric outreach clinics held in a general practice setting and community mental health centre

Over nine months, 57 consecutive newly referred and previous out-patient offenders to two community psychiatric out-patient clinics located in a deprived inner city area of London were interviewed to elicit demographic information, psychiatric details and obtain their views about their preferred location for the out-patient clinic. The majority (94%) preferred a community out-patient setting to...

Minor psychiatric morbidity in NHS workers.

Psychiatric Illness at General Hospital Clinics.

PATIENTS suffering from a psychiatric illness often present with many bodily complaints. It is not surprising to find, therefore, that these patients are sometimes referred to the general hospital clinics for the investigation of somatic disease. The aim of this paper is to review the subject, describe an investigation at a general hospital clinic and to discuss the various problems raised. Rel...

A Mathematical Model for Scheduling Elective Surgeries for Minimizing the Waiting Times in Emergency Surgeries

The ever-increasing demands for surgeries and the limited resources force hospitals to have efficient management of resources, especially the expensive ones like operating rooms (ORs). Scheduling surgeries including sequencing them, assigning resources to them and determining their start times is a complicated task for hospital managers. Surgery referrals usually include elective surgeries that...