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Working for patients: will it work in practice?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Nigel R. Fisher ,
Stuart R. Turner  and
Robert Pugh
Nigel R. Fisher
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, The Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London W1N 8AA
Stuart R. Turner
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, The Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London W1N 8AA
Robert Pugh
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, The Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London W1N 8AA
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The College has described the White Paper, Working for Patients (Department of Health, 1989a), as “an artist's impression” (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989) with the lack of detail obscuring the full implications of the proposals. Some of this detail is now available in the form of a series of working papers. In fact these papers may raise more questions than they answer, and in some cases would seem to be inconsistent with pre-existing Government policy – especially that concerned with the care of the mentally ill in the community.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , February 1991 , pp. 73 - 75
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