Service Models In Adult Psychiatry

In May 2014, the British Royal College of Psychiatrists published a report focused on service models for provision of mental healthcare to people with relatively severe and enduring mental health problems who normally live outside of institutional care and are neither suffering from illnesses specific to advancing age, nor younger than adolescence. The report addresses the increasing specialisation of services, with a move from sector-based provision of care where a consultant psychiatrist remained medically responsible for patients throughout their psychiatric journey, whether being cared for as an in-patient or in the community and for whatever the disorder. There . . .