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SERVICES IN DORSET: for people with mental handicaps
Author(s) -
Griffiths David,
Browning Roger L.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of the british institute of mental handicap (apex)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 0261-9997
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1987.tb00381.x
Subject(s) - mental handicap , mental health service , mental health , service (business) , medicine , geography , psychology , psychiatry , business , marketing
SUMMARY In just 36 months, Dorset has developed a near comprehensive local service for people with mental handicaps and their families in each of the county's towns and localities. At the same time Coldharbour Hospital, the county's mental handicap hospital, has reduced its size by two thirds. This article describes how the two health authorities involved worked together to achieve this.