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The psychonutritional unit: An out-patient clinic for eating disorders — the first five years
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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Before 1977 there was little work done with eating disorders in the psychiatric unit at Burnley General Hospital. The hospital dietetic department was aimed mainly at special diets for medical, surgical, and paediatric patients and services for the obese. Many patients with anorexia nervosa were treated on paediatric or medical wards, until in the early ‘80s, following the establishment of a clinical psychology department, a principal-grade psychologist was appointed.
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