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Mental hospital spends

13.03.09
A London NHS trust has been heavily criticised for spending £1 million on a failed application to redevelop a notorious mental hospital... more

Mental hospital spends £1m in failed planning bid

13.03.09
A London NHS trust has been heavily criticised for spending £1 million on a failed application to redevelop a notorious mental hospital... more

Killer dies on railway after fleeing psychiatric unit

18.02.09
A killer who escaped from a psychiatric hospital in south London committed suicide in front of a train within hours of fleeing... more

Huge hospital development will swamp us, say residents

13.02.09
A multi-million pound scheme to transform a notorious south London mental hospital has caused outrage in the community... more

Psychiatric patients allowed to see violent films on wards

16.01.09
Patients with severe mental health problems were able to watch violent films while being treated at a psychiatric hospital, a report has found... more

Police tell public not to approach murder suspect on the run from mental hospital

20.11.08
A suspected murderer on the run from a psychiatric hospital would not have broken free if he had been remanded to a jail, his alleged victim's mother claimed... more

Murder suspect and 'burglar' flee from secure unit

19.11.08
A murder suspect and a man accused of burglary have escaped from a south London mental health unit that has had a catalogue of patient break-outs... more

NHS failures over killer 'signed death warrant of my son'

02.07.08
The family of a man beaten to death by a mental patient has accused the people responsible for his care of "signing his death warrant"... more

Doctor who let knife killer out of hospital 'to sue for £300,000'

30.06.08
The family of a man stabbed to death by a mental patient have condemned her court action seeking more than £300,000 in damages... more

'My son was killed by a mental patient two years ago. I'm still waiting for the inquiry result'

22.04.08
The mother of a young man who was killed in the street by a paranoid schizophrenic has demanded to know why an inquiry has not been completed more than two years after his death... more

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