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Low secure versus locked rehabilitation units: a reflection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2014

Jude Chukwuma*
Affiliation:
Consultant Rehabilitation Psychiatrist, Alpha Hospital Woking & Park Grange Locked Rehabilitation Unit Woking, UK
*
Correspondence to: Dr Jude Chukwuma, Alpha Hospital Woking, Psychiatry, Redding Way, Knaphill, Woking, Surrey GU21 2QS. E-mail: [email protected]
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