PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - P. Harker
AU  - H. Leopoldt
AU  - J. R. Robinson
TI  - Attaching community psychiatric nurses to general practice
DP  - 1976 Sep 01
TA  - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
PG  - 666--671
VI  - 26
IP  - 170
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/26/170/666.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/26/170/666.full
SO  - J R Coll Gen Pract1976 Sep 01; 26
AB  - A scheme for attachment of psychiatric nurses from hospital to group practice in Oxford is described. One community psychiatric nurse can work satisfactorily with eight general practitioners covering a population of about 18,000. From analysis of a working year, it is concluded that this arrangement improves the care of patients in the community by providing psychiatric help at times when it was previously unavailable or unacceptable. The implications of such a scheme for the workings of the primary health care team and the hospital psychiatric service are considered, and a case is made for a further study involving a comparison between practices with and without the attachment of a community psychiatric nurse.