Patient-held shared care records for individuals with mental illness

Shared care for people with mental illness: a GP’s perspective†

Shared care in mental health is now a policy imperative in England and Wales, yet its meaning, form and function are still open to debate. In this article, I discuss the benefits of and barriers to a shared care approach, explain how policy is currently driving practice in this area, discuss recent shared care initiatives and highlight some of the tensions inherent in the approach, particularly...

Shared Care in Serious Mental Illness:

Censoring of patient-held records by doctors.

Computer-held information is increasingly shared between general practice and hospitals and with the provisions of the Data Protection Act now in operation, the practical issues of disclosure to patients need to be reviewed. Patients attending diabetic clinics at University Hospital, Nottingham, are routinely issued with a copy of their computerheld record but a previous study showed a high lev...

Pilot study of records of shared care for people with mental illnesses.

OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate a record of shared care to be held by the patient designed to increase the effectiveness of long term care of patients with severe mental illness. DESIGN Questionnaires completed by medical staff, community psychiatric nurse, and patients to evaluate the shared care record. SETTING General practices, a psychiatric outpatient clinic, and a mental health reso...

Travel Risks for Those With Serious Mental Illness

Introduction: It has been known for a long time in the French-speaking, but not the English-speaking literature that travel can exacerbate pre-existing psychosis. The purpose of this article was to review the literature on this subject and present recommendations for prevention. Methods: For this narrative review of the literature on travel risks in indivi...