College Recognition of Psychiatric Tutors

training programme is making our tasks very difficult, and we risk not being approved with posts losing recognition, just as a Local Elderly Mentally Infirm Unit is set up sixty miles from the nearest mental hospital, and fifty miles from the nearest psychogeriatrician. Can the College not think afresh about the training of psychiatric junior staff in District General Hospitals Units, and would they not consider limited or partial approval for two years in such a setting where there is no mental hospital handy to complete the desirable three-year experience? Might posts not be approved, as in other specialties, rather than full programmes? D. H. MORGAN Chatter/on House King's Lynn, Norfolk