We thank Dr Hunter-Brown for drawing our attention to the important distortion of facts that regrettably got into the summary I made of the paper that Dr Temple gave at the APP European Conference.

Extrapolating from statistical information made available to me by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, it seems that there are in fact 124 Consultant Psychotherapy posts in England, thirteen in Scotland, two in Wales and one in Northern Ireland. Of the 124 posts in England, sixty-seven are in London or Greater London and the majority of these are part-time.