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Back to the asylum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Danny Allen*
Affiliation:
Blackberry Hill Hospital, Manor Road, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 2EW Allen
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Abstract

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As hospitals close and relocate, our patients are increasingly being moved between different sites and out into the community. A move back to a large institution, however, is rare. This article describes the move of an in-patient facility located in a general hospital to an old psychiatric hospital with which, historically, it did not have very strong links.

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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 © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

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