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The tragic failure of care in the community, as witnessed by an ex-nurse | Books | Entertainment
Today Belinda is a registered mental health nurse and director at the Care Quality Commission (Image: Getty)
When mental health nurse Belinda Black arrived at work one day in the early 1990s she was perturbed to see one of her long-term patients lining up to board the hospital minibus.
Josephine had lived at the mental hospital for nearly 40 years.
“She seemed to be her normal cheerful self, lining up with a group of elderly patients on the gravel driveway,”