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Mental Health Review Tribunals

Time for a change?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Helen Crimlisk  and
Michael Phelan
Helen Crimlisk*
Affiliation:
Maudsley and Bethlem NHS Trust, Denmark Hill, London
Michael Phelan
Affiliation:
PRiSM, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London
*
Dr Helen Crimlisk, Maudsley and Bethlem NHS Trust, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 169 , Issue 6 , December 1996 , pp. 678 - 681
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Copyright © 1996 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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