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The Future of the Psychiatric Services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2025

Hugh Freeman
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‘The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light’. At a suitably pre-Christmas period, a Memorandum setting out the future shape of our mental health services, as well as the way they are to be achieved, descended on a waiting psychiatric world. Santa Claus, though, with his capital and revenue allocations, is unlikely to call at all those hospital chimneys and water-towers which Enoch Powell threatened with destruction eleven years ago and which still stand as reproachfully as ever.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 120 , Issue S555 , February 1972 , pp. 9 - 10
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972

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