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Adolescent units–wither on the vine? A meeting with the Under-secretary for State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Wells
Peter Wells*
Affiliation:
Mersey & North West Regional Health Authority in Adolescent Psychiatry 1970–1992
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Concern is growing over the decline of services for disturbed young people, expressed in the correspondence columns of the British Medical Journal, in professional journals (Vanstraelen & Cottrell, 1994; Saunders, 1993), and in literature from the Royal College of Psychiatrists (Pearce, 1994) among others. There has been a gradual loss of beds in adolescent psychiatric units, amounting in one survey of 60 units to nearly 20%. At least seven units have closed all their beds, and others are threatened with closure.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , April 1995 , pp. 248 - 249
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