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Supervised discharge – paper tiger?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Frank Holloway*
Affiliation:
Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1996

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