Is psychiatry losing touch with the rest of medicine?
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چکیده
What is happening in and around psychiatric services that raises fears of a harmful separation between psychiatrists and the rest of the medical fraternity? The last National Health Service (NHS) reforms at the beginning of the 1990s split some mental health services into separate organisations from their local acute services. Paragraph 5.14 in the Government’s White Paper The New NHS (NHS Executive, 1997a) seems to favour specialist mental health trusts. Combined whole district trusts are under threat. Shotguns are loaded to ‘encourage’ the marriage with social services. All this may seem to conspire against psychiatrists maintaining close professional relationships with physicians and surgeons in general hospitals. Instead it puts the emphasis on aligning psychiatric work much more closely with social services and primary care. Much restructuring is already afoot. It is a time for sober reflection on what is in the best interests of patients now and in the future (see Box 1). This paper will examine the key issues for psychiatrists to consider in influencing the management of their local mental health services.
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