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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2003) 9: 54-61
© 2003 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Telemedicine and telecare: what can it offer mental health services?

Paul McLaren

Paul McLaren is a general adult psychiatrist working with a community assessment and brief treatment team (South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, Speedwell Mental Health Centre, 62 Speedwell Street, Deptford, London SE8 4AT, UK) and Medical Director of The Priory’s Ticehurst House.

With new developments in image generation and transmission, researchers have studied the feasibility of using comunications technology for remote diagnosis and care delivery. The term ‘telepsychiatry’ has been used to describe the application of telemedicine and telecare to mental health. This article reviews the development of telepsychiatry and key research findings. Results suggest that service users are more comfortable with mediated services than are professsonals. Most work has been done in areas of low population density, where accessibility to conventional services is limited by economics and geography. In urban settings, with distributed community services, telepsychiatry can improve communication between primary and secondary sectors and within secondary services.




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