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Discharge delays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Tullett
David Tullett*
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Rochford Hospital, Union Lane, Rochford, Essex SS4 1RB, email: david.tullett@southessex-trust.nhs.uk
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 32 , Issue 9 , September 2008 , pp. 358
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Many elderly psychiatric wards are currently experiencing problems with delayed discharges (Reference Hanif and RathodHanif & Rathod, 2008). It is interesting to note that mental health patients were initially included in the Community Care Act 2003. They were only excluded in a late House of Lords amendment after lobbying by mental health groups, particularly MIND.

As with New Ways of Working, we reap what we sow.

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Hanif, I. & Rathod, B. (2008) Delays in discharging elderly psychiatric in-patients. Psychiatric Bulletin, 32, 211–213.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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