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Service innovations: the role of a consultant in old age psychiatry
— experience of an adapted model of care | | Author(s) | David Lawley, John Bestley, Andy Talbot |
| Journal title | Psychiatric Bulletin, vol 29, no 3, March 2005 |
| Pages | pp 101-103 |
| Source | http://pb.rcpsych.org |
| Keywords | Psychiatrists ; Health Authorities and Trusts ; Psychiatric treatment ; Kingston-upon-Hull ; Holderness. |
| Annotation | There is increased recognition that the role and function of a consultant old age psychiatrist is ill-defined and is associated with excessive workloads, low job satisfaction, high levels of stress and high rates of premature retirement. This has led to an examination and debate about how consultants in general psychiatry can adapt models of working to address these difficulties, and also tackle the agenda of change facing the NHS as a whole and mental health services in particular. These challenges are not, of course, unique to general psychiatry, but as yet, there has been little debate about how consultants in other specialties, including old age psychiatry, could begin to try and address these difficulties. This article aims to stimulate debate, by describing an adapted model of working that has been adopted by two consultants in old age psychiatry in eastern Hull and Holderness within the Hull and East Riding Community Health NHS Trust. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050503201 A |
| Classmark | QT9: L4A: LP: 8HUD: 8HUH |
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