The mental health units that shame the NHS - The Observer 29th June 2008

Millions have been spent on the NHS since Labour pledged to reform it 10 years ago - so why does the incoming president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists think the state of some wards is so dire that he would not let his own family use them? Social affairs correspondent Amelia Hill reports

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