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Emergency work at an Inner London psychiatric hospital: a study of assessments made over six months

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. A. McPhillips  and
S. A. Spence
M. A. McPhillips
Affiliation:
SHO in Psychiatry, St Mary Abbots Hospital, Marloes Road, London W8 5LQ
S. A. Spence
Affiliation:
SHO in Psychiatry, The Gordon Hospital, Bloomburg Street, London SW1
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Following the introduction of a 24 hour Emergency Clinic at the Maudsley Hospital in 1952, psychiatric hospitals across the UK have come to offer a similar but often smaller service.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , February 1993 , pp. 84 - 86
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