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specialist psychiatric advice is necessary for all self-poisoned patients, we should have found that the patients assessed by the medical teams had fared less well than those assessed by psychiatrists. But ... there was no significant difference between the groups in the incidence of relapse during the trial." They considered that, "a specialist psychiatric training is not essential for the purpose of assessing suicidal risk" and conclude that there is "a strong case for amending the recommendation in the Hill Report so that physicians may decide in each case of self-poisoning whether a psychiatric opinion is necessary."