She points to cutbacks in beds and says the full complement for acute mental patients should be made avaialble.

The hospital has 137 beds for acute patients.

In 1868 Collingwood ceased to admit acute patients who had previously been retained in the gaols.

Nevertheless, most acute patients can be treated successfully, although the relapse rate is unacceptably high.

Supportive care is the cornerstone of successful management in the acute patient.

They make us wake stable patients up at 4am to move beds, so that they can admit an acute patient from A&E onto my ward.

Artemisinin has a very rapid action and the vast majority of acute patients treated show significant improvement within 1-3 days of receiving treatment.

It is remarkable that she was able to function at all, and she dealt more than competently with the three acute patients she knew about.

Corex has a high sugar content, and may be unsuitable for acute diabetic patients.

"I think it hasn't been demonstrated that acute patients do better than chronic," he said.