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Hello again - tis a new week and a good one I'll warrant.

Here's a couple of things I spotted this morning. In The Guardian, novelist Clare Allan points out that the same-sex wards issue is more complex than it sounds when it comes to mental health care.

But the fact is that when patients still eat meals together, still queue up in pyjamas for their meds together, still share the same TV room and so on, there will continue to be incidents of a sexual nature which can be profoundly disturbing for vulnerable patients from a wide range of cultural backgrounds

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/mental-health/2009/01/mixed-sex-wards-and-vitamin-d.html


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