Psychiatric Care

February 1997, Volume 4, Issue 1
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Editorial

Leading the service into the millennium - learning from the past to improve the future 6
D Sallah

Practice

Studying patient choice and privacy in a forensic setting 12
M Collins and D Robinson

Competence-based management development in a healthcare context: Does it fit? 16
G Currie

Coercive interventions: The notion of the `last resort' 19
T McDougall

Twenty years of admissions to a special hospital 22
P Woods and T Mason

Community psychiatric nursing courses: Take up, content and leaders' views 26
L Bowers

Does family intervention reduce relapse in schizophrenia? 30
T Bradshaw

A foodservice in a forensic setting: Auditing and quality circles 34
P Higgins and A McGregor Kettles

Mental Health Act Notes

A brief guide to the 1983 act - Part III 39
C Curran, C Grimshaw, A Zigmond, A Milligan

Regulars

News 7

Forthcoming papers 29

Charity profile 38

Directions to contributors 43


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