This report, published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, outlines the role of liaison psychiatry in delivering a comprehensive care pathway for people with  long-term conditions and medically unexplained symptoms.

Download Liaison Psychiatry and the management of long-term conditions and medically unexplained symptoms

Key points

• Government strategy highlights the importance of integrating the management of comorbid physical and mental disorders.
• Liaison psychiatrists have specific expertise in the management of psychiatric illness in medically ill patients.
• Interventions delivered by liaison psychiatry services can improve patients’ physical and psychological health outcomes and reduce healthcare costs in the management of long-term conditions and medically unexplained symptoms