Memorandum and Study Outline Relating to an Integrated Mental Health Service for Dumfriesshire and Galloway

Memorandum regarding planned research into the aftercare of patients discharged from Crichton Royal Hospital, to be undertaken with the assistance of a grant from the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust put forward by Physician Superintendent Dr J. Harper and Director of Clinical Research, Dr A. Tait. A further document, 'Mental Hospital and Community: The Study of a Rural Area', outlines the work to be undertaken as part of the study, with proposed method and cost of research.

1959

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The Mental Health (Scotland) Act, 1960 came into force in 1961, shifting the responsibility for patients discharged from mental hospitals to Local Authorities. This research was carried out in order to assess the needs of the patients prior to the changes. The grant from the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust met the cost of a physician trained in social medicine, a social worker and a secretary to carry out the project.

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