Six months after opening, the service has helped to reduce psychiatric admissions by 33%.
As part of "care in the community", we somehow manage to pay private hospitals £25m a year by outsourcing psychiatric admissions because our own NHS beds are full – a rise of 32% in the last year alone.
During the London blitz, planners projected that up to 4 million civilians might have breakdowns – in the event, psychiatric admissions fell and strangers formed self-organising communities in bomb shelters.
Inpatient psychiatric admissions provide opportunities for HIV testing.
They concluded it was unrelated to the numbers of psychiatric admissions, murders, car accidents, suicides and crimes.
Speak to police officers or staff in hospital emergency departments, and some will insist there are more accidents, violent incidents and psychiatric admissions when the Moon is full.
On further examination of potential contributing factors to CJ risk, many women identified current problems with alcohol (90.3%) or drugs (54.8%), and were receiving treatment for mental health issues, including multiple prior inpatient psychiatric admissions.
The change in state imprisonment rates across the country averaged 0.72percentt between 2006 and 2010, whereas rates of statewide substance abuse admissions and inpatient psychiatric admissions changed by −5.59percentand9.41percentcent respectively (see Table 1).
The team analyzed the records of all psychiatric admissions in the country between 1970 and 2007 and found 196 pairs of parents in which both had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
"The rise in drug-related psychiatric admissions is the canary in the mine," Ian Hamilton, a lecturer in mental health at the University of York, told me.
The psychiatric admissions to hospital are unlikely to reflect the true size of the problem.
