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Was this why Chai Patel was put up for a peerage?
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Was this why Chai Patel was put up for a peerage?
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It seems according to Sunday's Independent that his Priory clinics have been treating 800 British troops who served in Iraq and are suffering from psychiatric illnesses.
Now, don't get me wrong, I think our treatment of British "vets" is scandalous compared with the value some other nations put on looking after those who have put their lives on the line for their country and I am sure that many more probably deserve Priory type standards of assistance. But if this was Haliburton and America we'd be screaming blue murder about contracts for favoured insiders.
Of course the alternative, properly funding public sector mental health services, is just unthinkable these days, isn't it. And a far cry from W H R Rivers at Craiglockhart.
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Is it what was actually used in the film of Regeneration by the way?
The former war hospital at Craiglockhart is the building I work in - these days it's a university campus. We have a collection of works relating to the war poets and an exhibition about them and the history of the hospital.