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Supervision registers and medium secure units

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jim Isherwood
Jim Isherwood*
Affiliation:
Forensic Psychiatry, Ravenswood House, Knowle Hospital, Fareham, Hampshire PO17 5NA
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Abstract

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The introduction of supervision registers for mentally ill people according to the NHS Executive Guidelines in February 1994 aroused debate among psychiatrists. This paper highlights many of the issues and describes the development of the supervision register at one medium secure unit.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , April 1996, pp. 198 - 200
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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, 1996

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