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The uptake of social security benefits among psychiatric day hospital patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Daniel S. Allen  and
Renate West
Daniel S. Allen
Affiliation:
Basingstoke District Hospital, Psychiatric Division, Park Prewett, Basingstoke
Renate West
Affiliation:
Basingstoke District Hospital, Psychiatric Division, Park Prewett, Basingstoke
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A leader in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) last year (Marks, 1988) suggested that the uptake of social security benefits among mentally ill people is low. However, this statement was based on the only data the writer could find – a study of 37 patients conducted in Islington based on the old social security system, prior to April 1988 (Linney & Boswell, 1987). Two weeks later, another BMJ leader (Marcovitch, 1988) bemoaned the fact that insufficient research had been conducted on the impact of changes in the social security system.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 11 , November 1989 , pp. 626 - 627
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989

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