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Emergency admissions to a regional adolescent unit: piloting a new service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Andrew Cotgrove
Andrew Cotgrove*
Affiliation:
Pine Lodge, Young People's Centre, 79 Liverpool Road, Chester CH2 1AW
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Abstract

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Adolescent in-patient units within the NHS generally provide a broad range of services to large catchment areas and populations. ‘Pine Lodge’ Young People's Centre in Chester has piloted a new emergency admission service which it has run in conjunction with its existing treatment service. This paper sets out to discuss the potential difficulties in providing such a service in the setting of a general purpose adolescent unit; describe the specification of the piloted emergency service; and present the results of monitoring its use and efficacy during the first six months.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 10 , October 1997 , pp. 604 - 608
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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