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At 17:44 18/09/2008, you wrote: >I was a clinical assistant on a psychogeriatric unit for the most severe end >of the spectrum for 15 years doing a session a week. My partners did another >couple of sessions and we did all the screening medicals and day to day >medical management on the 20 place day hospital and 3 wards of 28 inpatients >each initially. > >The whole unit was slowly run down over the last 5 years and closed last >October. The replacement is an extra CPN and a day hospital on the other >side of the city. > >The inpatients have all gone into grossly expensive private nursing homes. > >An absolute scandal > >Trefor That matches the lack of provision locally. Why aren't we (as a profession) saying and doing more about this? Julian