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Developments in Psychiatric Day Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Phillip J. Vaughan
Phillip J. Vaughan*
Affiliation:
Heatherwood Day Unity King's Ride, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 8AA
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Although day care for the mentally ill has been used for almost forty years the potential of the service has not been fully utilised and the movement lacks any sense of overall direction. Day hospitals, the major provider of day care places, have expanded because of practical and financial pressures rather than by their own merit. Meanwhile, day centres have failed to make any significant impact on the psychiatric system, due to a lack of funding to local authorities and their consequent lack of commitment. The result has been a rather ad hoc development of services and a failure to rationalise their activities.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 147 , Issue 1 , July 1985 , pp. 1 - 4
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Copyright © 1985 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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