scholarly journals Better Out Than In – report from the Fifth Annual Conference of the Team for the Assessment of Psychiatric Services – July 1990. London: North East Thames Regional Health Authority. Pp. 125. £9 payable to TAPS. Available from Mrs R. Kendal, TAPS Research Unit, Friern Hospital, Friern Barnet Road, London N11 3BP

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 380-381
Author(s):  
Douglas G. Fowlie
2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 165-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Leff ◽  
Noam Trieman ◽  
Martin Knapp ◽  
Angela Hallam

The Team for the Assessment of Psychiatric Services (TAPS) was established in May 1985 with the explicit purpose of evaluating the national policy of replacing psychiatric hospitals with district based services. TAPS' remit was to mount the evaluation with respect to the closure of Friern and Claybury Hospitals in north London. Funding was provided by the Department of Health and North-East Thames Regional Health Authority (latterly North Thames Regional Health Authority) with supplements from the King's Fund and the Sainsbury Family Trusts. During 13 years of research TAPS has employed more than 50 members of staff and associated researchers. A full listing is given in Leff (1997). This summary of the research is organised by topics. However, there was very close integration of the various projects.


1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 699-700
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Spencer

For 40 years it has been the custom in the Yorkshire Health Region for the consultant psychiatrists working in the Region to have the opportunity to meet together informally at regular intervals. Over the years different consultants have voluntarily acted as sole co-ordinator, convener and secretary of this Association of Regional Consultants. Sadly, for various reasons in changing times, the Association has recently decided to disband. In its lifetime the Association has made an important considerable contribution to the development of psychiatric services in the Yorkshire Region. It has influenced policies and it has inspired the continuing loyalty of many consultants. It is appropriate to acknowledge the place of this Association, unique in many respects, and supremely democratic in its organisation, in the history of psychiatry in the Region.


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