Objective: To review the value provided when health care systems independently manage
medical and psychiatric care. Method: The authors draw on data from the world literature …

Objective: To review the challenge of providing integrated mental health services from a
policy and health management perspective. Conclusions: The provision of integrated mental …

Health and social care face growing and conflicting pressures: mounting complex needs of
an ageing population, restricted funding and a workforce recruitment and retention crisis. In …

Establishment of closer links with medicine in clinical work, research and teaching
represents a major achievement of psychiatry in this century. Development of general …

Background In the state of Victoria, Australia, the 111-day lockdown due to the COVID-19
pandemic exacerbated the population's prevailing state of poor mental health. Of the 87% of …

BackgroundThis paper examines the feasibility of evaluating innovative models of working
at the interface between primary care and secondary mental health services …

'The development of community mental health services One of the foremost preoccupations
of contemporary psychiatry has been the process of deinstitutionalisation and the …

Background Since the economic recession began in 2008 anecdotal reports suggest that
mental health services in England have experienced disinvestment, but published data to …

Abstract Changes in patterns of delivery of mental health care over several decades are
putting pressure on primary health and social care services to increase their involvement …

The World Health Organization's World Mental Health Report is a call for action and reminds
all of the huge personal and societal impact of mental illnesses. Significant effort is required …