Saturday, 26 May 2012

Winter mental health warning

29/01/2010 | By Chloë Stothart

Homeless people with severe mental illness who endanger their lives by sleeping rough during exceptionally cold weather should be assessed and possibly committed to psychiatric hospitals, according to two leading homelessness charities.

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