Psychiatric service support in emergency departments
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Psychiatric service support in emergency departments

It is encouraging to see that the issue of assessment for self-harm is at last being discussed (news August 4). Hospital emergency departments have long wished for input from psychiatric services in the assessment of patients who self-harm.

Nursing Standard. 24, 49, 33-33. doi: 10.7748/ns.24.49.33.s47

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