ALL IN THE MIND?
Coalition health minister values early
intervention in psychosis on radio 4's All in the Mind programme
‘The evidence is pretty
compelling that by intervening early you can make a real difference; you can
avoid someone being admitted into acute hospital care so this is really a no
brainer. It makes sense to invest in early interventions to go back upstream and
make sure we prevent these sorts of problems’.
Quote from Louis Appleby

"I have seen how much progress early intervention teams have made, how innovative they have been, and the impact they are having. I now believe that early intervention will be the most important and far reaching reform of the NSF era. Crisis resolution has had the most immediate effect but I think early intervention will have the greatest effect on people’s lives." Professor Louis Appleby, National Director for Mental Health October 10th 2008, at the Policies and Practice for Europe (DH / WHO Europe conference attended by 35 European Countries).