This guidance sets out the evidence gathered from lay people, professionals, commissioners and the literature about what is needed from liaison psychiatry services.
Download An Evidence Base for Liaison Psychiatry Services – Guidance
The aim of this document is to set out clearly the evidence upon which the proposed models for liaison psychiatry are built. As such, each section sets out in a series of bullet points the views of the lay group, the professional group, the commissioners’ group and the evidence from the literature. The subsequent documents, 3 and 4, synthesise this evidence into recommendations and service model specifications for liaison psychiatry.
This guidance is part of a suite of four related documents, each with increasing levels of detail:
- Liaison Psychiatry Services – Guidance – sets out the key consideration to be made when commissioning liaison psychiatry services.
- An Evidence Base for Liaison Psychiatry – Guidance – sets out the evidence gathered from lay people, professionals, commissioners and the literature about what is needed from liaison psychiatry services.
- Developing Models for Liaison Psychiatry Services – Guidance – provides the technical information needed for commissioning liaison psychiatry services.
- Model Service Specifications for Liaison Psychiatry Services – Guidance – sets out exemplar service specifications for four models of liaison psychiatry.
This guidance was commissioned by the Strategic Clinical Network for Mental Health, Dementia and Neurological Conditions South West.
