Establishing a mental health liaison attachment with primary care
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concerns mental health, with only about 5% referred on to psychiatrists. Shepherd (1991) insisted that the only real hope for significant improvement in mental health care lay in the improvement of GP provision there will simply never be enough psychiatrists. The past 15 years have seen real evidence of this improvement, with a growing literature on mental health problems in primary care (Kendrick et al, 1996). This charts a 'technology export' of
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