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114 BULLETIN OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS, VOL 10, MAY 1986 Correspondence The Health Advisory Service DEARSIRS DEARSIRS We write from a peripheral mental hospital to support I think there are even more serious questions to ask Professor Goldbergs views on the Health Advisory about the Health Advisory Service than those raised by Service. We have received exactly the same advice concern Professor Goldberg (Bulletin. February 1986, 1, 36). I ing sectorisation and specialism as we knew we would will leave readers to formulate most of those questions before the visit because this has for a long time been the themselves once they know the following. party line, regardless of the views or experience of others. A report in the mid-1970s showed that the nursing staff/ Consultants in this hospital do have their areas of population ratio of this hospitals catchment area was 78 special interest and their different ways of doing things. per 100,000. Since that time there has been a small However, we try in the face of HAS advice to uphold the increase in absolute numbers of staff and also a calculated principle of freedom of choice for patients and general decrease in the catchment area population, which seems practitioners and for continuity of care. Their advice can inconsistent with the evidence of ones own eyes, a be seized upon by others with less immediate responsibili considerable house building programme including several ties for patient care