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Suicide Prevention

Hazards on the Fast Lane to Community Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

H. G. Morgan
H. G. Morgan*
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Department of Mental Health, University of Bristol, 41 St Michael's Hill, Bristol BS2 8DZ
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In 1989 a crisis occurred in a West Country seaside town. Its psychiatric services had been regarded as a vanguard of community care, having been fully established some three years previously when the in-patient facilities which had been based in a mental hospital some 15 miles away were closed. The framework of the new-style service consisted of five mental health centres scattered throughout the residential area and a 60-bed in-patient unit, based in the grounds of the local district general hospital.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 160 , Issue 2 , February 1992 , pp. 149 - 153
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992 

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Morgan, H. G. & Priest, P. (1991) Suicide and other unexpected deaths among psychiatric in-patients. The Bristol confidential inquiry. British Journal of Psychiatry, 158, 368–374.Google Scholar
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