Originally established by John Wilder to support psychiatric patients on discharge from hospital at a time when the Mental Health Act meant that psychiatric hospitals were being closed and replaced by 'care in the community'. In 2010 PRA Services changed its name to The Centre for Better Health. Now, 2013, based in Darnley Road, E9.
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Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
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Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, founded October 1959, acquired and oc...
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Sir Harold Gillies
Pioneer plastic surgeon. Born Dunedin, New Zealand. Came to England as a student at Cambridge and qualified as a surgeon in 1910. The two world wars provided him with the inspiration (and the patie...
Francis T. Gregg
M.A. Secretary of Institute of The Ophthalmic Opticians, Refraction Hospital in 1929.
G. C. Green
District Staff Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1902-1952. Officer in the Order of St John.
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London School of Tropical Medicine
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World War 1
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Thames flood wall
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