Recent government policy and legislation
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This is the first in a series of articles to be published serially in the Psychiatric Bulletin on recent government policy and legislation. Each article will describe a different piece of legislation and place it in its international perspective, highlighting how it will affect individual psychiatric practice, users of mental health services and the working relationship with purchasers and managers. The articles are aimed at all practising psychiatrists and those in training who wish to familiarise themselves with the important recent legislation that is having a profound effect on the practice of psychiatry in the UK.The legislation that will be covered includes the NHS and Community Care Act, The Health of the Nation, community care plans and mental illness specific grant, the care programme approach, discharge and aftercare planning procedures, NHS trusts, fundholding and commissioning general practitioners and the purchaser provider split. There will be a summarising article to reflect common themes and trends. The series was commissioned by Dr Sara Davies and Dr Jeanette Smith, Trainee Editors at the Psychiatric Bulletin.
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