Psychiatry services are being initiated and delivered in the general hospitals. Though this is being achieved at a slow pace, nevertheless, the trend is being set. Community programmes lor the delivery of psychiatric services are also being planned. The delivery of mental health care services at the primary health centres and the peripheral areas would perhaps be strengthened it the role of Gen...

nor has been pleased to alter the name of the Hospital hitherto known as "Presidency General Hospital, Calcutta", and to rename it as "Seth Sukulall Karnani Memorial Hospital, Calcutta" with effect from the date of publication" namely the 6th September, 1954. The "P.G.H.", as it has been affectionately known to millions in Bengal, and in Calcutta particularly, and almost equally well to thousan...

Communication by letter was assessed between hospital consultants and general practitioners for outpatients and inpatients referred to the Ards Hospital during the month of January 1993. The information was assessed to be poor in several sections of 104 outpatient referral letters, and of 89 inpatient referral letters despite a high use of the standard referral letter form. Consultant physician...

The liberation of psychiatry from the confines of the traditional mental hospital has been hailed as one of the roost significant steps in the progress of psychiatry during the second half of the twentieth century. This has, no doubt, benefitted the patient by providing treatment facilities in his own community, removing the social stigma associated wi th hospitalization, reducing the damaging ...

Wounds represent a growing healthcare problem due to an aging population. Nurses play a key role in wound management and their theoretical understanding of basic wound management may be expected to influence the quality of wound therapy fundamentally. In this study, we evaluated the level of knowledge of wound management in 136 Danish nurses working in 3 different settings: advanced wound care ...

We apply cross-sectional and panel data methods to a database of 5 million patients in 8000 English general practices to examine whether better primary care management of 10 chronic diseases is associated with reduced hospital costs. We find that only primary care performance in stroke care is associated with lower hospital costs. Our results suggest that the 10% improvement in the general prac...

^PHE Hospital Plan for England and Wales,* published by the Minister of Health in January, has made clearer the future of psychiatric services and the mental hospitals. The plan consists largely of area-by-area lists?of hospitals and beds at the end of 1960, of developments under way or planned, and of hospitals and beds expected to be provided by 1975. However, psychiatric services, including ...

Some visible effects of incompleteness of our care system are the auxiliary beds in psychiatric units of general hospitals, mainly in Attica and the very high rate of involuntary hospitalizations, 35–40% of admissions in psychiatric units of general hospitals in Athens, more than 50% in psychiatric hospitals and lower rates in other regional units. The growth of private clinics is mostly visibl...

OBJECTIVE To measure the effectiveness of manualized cognitive-behavioural group therapy (CBGT) when it is integrated into the routine care on a general hospital psychiatric inpatient unit. METHODS A pre-post design is used to measure the "process", "results" and "outcome" indicators in the year before CBGT was introduced (2001) in contrast to the subsequent two years (2002, 2003). Readmissio...