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Chapter 1 - Psychiatric Intensive Care: Development and Definition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2024

By
Stephen M. Pereira  and
Stephen Dye
Edited by
Roland Dix ,
Stephen Dye  and
Stephen M. Pereira
Roland Dix
Affiliation:
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucester
Stephen Dye
Affiliation:
Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust, Ipswich
Stephen M. Pereira
Affiliation:
Keats House, London
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Summary

This chapter outlines the historical development of psychiatric intensive care as a specialty. It presents an overview of the current facilities and patients based on the most recent UK National Surveys and current admission criteria taken from national guidelines. Further, it discusses how psychiatric intensive care interfaces with general adult services, mental health secure estates, the criminal justice system and community mental health services. Finally, the chapter presents an outline of the future strategy for the development of the specialty.

Keywords

psychiatric intensive careregional secure units (RSUs)interim secure units (ISUs)low secure units (LSUs)psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs)
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Psychiatric Intensive Care , pp. 1 - 18
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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