Former consultant psychiatrist Bristol (b 1929; q St Thomas's Hospital, London, 1960; FRCP, FRCPsych), d 10 May 2004.
Duncan Chisholm was appointed consultant psychiatrist at Bristol's Barrow and Southmeads Hospitals and clinical lecturer in Bristol University's department of mental health in 1969. He made a substantial contribution to the development of community mental health services in Bristol and the surrounding area, setting up lithium and depot injection clinics, community psychiatric nursing services, and one of the first mother and baby units in the country in the early 1970s. Later he was primarily responsible for the introduction of a community oriented general psychiatric service in the Southmead Health District in Bristol and was chairman of the division of psychiatry in 1977-82. He leaves a wife, Annabelle; four sons; and four grandsons.
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