Slaying the dinosaur. The need for locally organised evaluation of mental health services.
The need for mental health services to be community rather than institutionally based is generally agreed, but not all districts are finding the change easy. A blueprint will not do because a service must be shaped to the particular community. Gordon Mitchell and Graham Rodwell argue that a locally based research and evaluation help in the evolution of a unit responsive to local needs.
D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D008330:Management Audit / Q000379:methods*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009934:Organization and Administration / Q000379:methods*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom