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Low secure versus locked rehabilitation units: a reflection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2014

Jude Chukwuma
Jude Chukwuma*
Affiliation:
Consultant Rehabilitation Psychiatrist, Alpha Hospital Woking & Park Grange Locked Rehabilitation Unit Woking, UK
*
Correspondence to: Dr Jude Chukwuma, Alpha Hospital Woking, Psychiatry, Redding Way, Knaphill, Woking, Surrey GU21 2QS. E-mail: jude.chukwuma@alphahospitals.co.uk
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Keywords

Locked rehabilitationlow securesplit commissioningcollaborative commissioning
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Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , August 2015 , pp. 73 - 77
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© NAPICU 2014 

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