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This is the first in a series of articles to be published serially in the  Psychiatric Bulletin  on recent government policy and legislation. Each article will describe a different piece of legislation and place it in its international perspective, highlighting how it will affect individual psychiatric practice, users of mental health services and the working relationship with purchasers and managers. The articles are aimed at all practising psychiatrists and those in training who wish to familiarise themselves with the important recent legislation that is having a profound effect on the practice of psychiatry in the UK. The legislation that will be covered includes the NHS and Community Care Act,  The Health of the Nation  community care plans and mental illness specific grant, the care programme approach, discharge and aftercare planning procedures, NHS trusts, fundholding and commissioning general practitioners and the purchaser provider split. There will be a summarising article to reflect common themes and trends. The series was commissioned by Dr Sara Davies and Dr Jeanette Smith, Trainee Editors at the  Psychiatric Bulletin .  The National Health Service and Community Care Act, 1990, enacts some provisions contained in the  Working for Patients  and  Caring for People  White Papers. The former measures were introduced immediately in 1990 and contain, for example, the legal basis for NHS trusts and fund-holding GPs. Most of the community care sections of the Act were delayed in their implementation until April 1993. The key element is allocating the main coordinating responsibility as ‘lead agency’ to local social service authorities; they are charged with conducting ‘needs assessments’ on clients presenting with problems. Whether, however, there is a legal obligation upon social services departments to provide care for people with unmet needs to not yet dear.

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