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Resolving London's bed crisis: there might be a way, is there the will?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Paul Lelliott
Affiliation:
Royal College of Psychiatrists' Research Unit
Bernard Audini
Affiliation:
Royal College of Psychiatrists' Research Unit, 11 Grosvenor Crescent, London SW1X 7EE
Nancy Darroch
Affiliation:
Greenwich District Hospital, Vanbrugh Hill, London SE10 9HE
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