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Whither community care?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Tyrer*
Affiliation:
Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary's Campus, Paterson Centre for Mental Health, 20 South Wharf Road, London W2 IPD
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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