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Setting up a telepsychiatry service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Roland M. Jones ,
Sarah Leonard  and
Luke Birmingham
Roland M. Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Brintons Terrace, Southampton SO14 0YG, email: rolandmjones@yahoo.co.uk
Sarah Leonard
Affiliation:
School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton
Luke Birmingham
Affiliation:
Community Clinical Sciences Division, University of Southampton, Ravenswood House, Knowle, Fareham
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Telepsychiatry is the delivery of healthcare and the exchange of healthcare information for purposes of providing psychiatric services across distances (Yellowlees et al, 2003). In practice, this most often means an interaction between a patient and clinician who are in different sites, through the use of transmitted live sound and video images. The term telepsychiatry was first used by Dwyer in 1973 who described the use of closed-circuit television at Massachusetts General Hospital for consultations between psychiatrists and patients. However, telemedicine was pioneered at the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute nearly 20 years earlier (Wittson & Dutton, 1956).

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 30 , Issue 12 , December 2006 , pp. 464 - 467
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