TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - The distribution of community psychiatric nurses in England: are they where they should be?
JO  - Journal of Advanced Nursing
A1  - Buck, D.
A1  - Smith, K.
SP  - 508
EP  - 516
VL  - 28
IS  - 3
N2  - Given the substantial increase in the numbers of community psychiatric nurses (CPNs) in England in the last 15 years this paper asks the question: is CPN activity where it should be? In-other words is activity distributed around the country according to need? Various indicators of need are suggested including population age structure, deprivation indices and suicide rates. We find no evidence -- based on information from scatterplots, Spearman correlations and more innovative measures of inequality -- that CPNs are distributed according to need. If this is confirmed by further research it is cause for alarm -- CPNs should be where they are most needed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0309-2402
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -