The recent White paper, Modernising Mental Health Services, recommended the provision
of home treatment teams for acute mental illness (Department of Health, 1998). Such …

Objective: To describe the nature of psychiatry work within a general medical hospital and to
compare and contrast the nature of that work between emergency department and inpatient …

Objective: To examine the effectiveness of the introduction of a community mental health
team on consumer psychosocial outcomes. Design: Longitudinal panel design. Setting …

To address the high rate of depression and suicide in rural Australia requires a multifaceted
approach to educate the community, improve the skills of health workers and provide user …

Objective: To see if a new model of service delivery ensures that individuals with a mental
illness in rural and remote settings could be assessed, treated and cared for in a more …

Mental health trusts serving scattered rural communities face particular challenges when
attempting to identify and meet unmet need. A number of social, geographical and practical …

A neighbourhood health centre in the US is compared with the mental health services in an
area of the UK. Patients with severe, but long-standing psychiatric illnesses, or patients with …

Over the past ten years, the National Health Service in England has introduced home
treatment teams throughout the country. Despite this, and the fact that England now has the …

Objectives: To describe the organisational, clinical and pragmatic features of a GP liaison
service established by the Division of Mental Health in the Darling Downs Hospital and …