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The article presents the highest hazard facilities in the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) estate is the Magnox Swarf Storage Silos (MSSS) on the Sellafield site. Topics include the facility was first constructed in the 1960s, and its 22 compartments are used to store a mixture of different types of higher activity nuclear waste, and the majority is waste resulting from the reprocessing of spent fuel from Magnox reactors.

A lecturer in mental health describes his experiences of visiting McLean Hospital in Boston, MA, St Joseph's Hospital in County Limerick, Ireland, and Newcastle Hospital in County Wicklow, Ireland. The partial hospitalization programme at McLean Hospital is detailed, and the positive attitudes towards nursing education in the US are considered. The various mental health initiatives managed by St Joseph's Hospital are described, and the innovative techniques used within the short inpatient programme at Newcastle Hospital are considered.

Mental health workers used a brief scale to evaluate the effectiveness of hospital-based care for patients admitted with acute mental health problems. The scales revealed that hospitalization was an effective intervention, as patients left hospital with a reduction in symptoms. They also showed that a day service could produce similar results in many circumstances, but that a partial hospitalization approach would answer the full range of patients' needs. Re-organisation of the service to form this structure, together with the addition of a telephone crisis line, has proved effective.