Letter: The benefits of community care

Saturday 31 July 1993 23:02 BST

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IT WOULD be tragic if the Government and Opposition allowed themselves to be duped into unravelling reforms towards care in the community by the crusading exploitation of a small number of bad cases. Memories are short, but we are still paying for the failure of battery psychiatry in the large asylums.

Tony Smythe

(former director of Mind)

London N4

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