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Psychogeriatric day hospitals: open to audit?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

A. E. Thompson
A. E. Thompson*
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital, Morpeth, Northumberland NE61 2NU
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Day care has been called one of psychiatry's gifts to medicine. The British psychiatric day hospital movement began in the post war years and its philosophy continues to flourish with the decline of institutional care.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 5 , May 1990 , pp. 277 - 278
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989

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