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Partnership in practice
— mental health working with general hospital wards | | Author(s) | Sally Ashton, Christine Carter |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 13, issue 1, March 2009 |
| Pages | pp 32-34 |
| Source | http://www.pavpub.com |
| Keywords | Psychiatric treatment ; Liaison ; Nurses ; Medical wards ; Projects ; Gloucestershire. |
| Annotation | Older people (those aged 65+) occupy a significant proportion of hospital beds, with many suffering from depression, delirium, dementia, anxiety and other conditions. The mainstreaming of mental health liaison teams within general hospitals is therefore to be welcomed. The authors describe work by the Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust (PCT) mental health liaison service which originated from the Partnership in Practice project (2004-2006) funded by the Department of Health (DH) relating to the National Service Framework for Older People (NSF) Standard 4. Two case studies illustrate the teaching opportunities that the project presented, as well as the benefits to the patients. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090417206 A |
| Classmark | LP: QAK: QTE: LD4: 3E: 8G |
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