Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2007) 13: 272-275. doi: 10.1192/apt.bp.106.003459
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Take your partners please

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David Yeomans

David Yeomans is a consultant psychiatrist in Leeds and honorary senior lecturer at the University of Leeds (Clarence House, 11 Clarence Road, Leeds, LS18 4LB, UK. Email: david.yeomans{at}leedsmh.nhs.uk). He is the medical lead in the CHOICE multi-agency community mental health service, which combines a community mental health team with voluntary sector day care, counselling, befriending, complementary therapies, advice work and physical well-being services. He has contributed to the Government White Paper Choosing Health and recent Department of Health Commissioning Guidance for well-being services in severe mental illness.

Partnership working with the voluntary sector is developing across mental health services. Such partnerships have the support of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Department of Health. Setting up a partnership requires enthusiastic psychiatrists who are willing to work in new ways. These psychiatrists will face issues of personal and clinical responsibility, confidentiality and fairness. They will also have to deal with continuing changes that could unsettle a new and developing collaboration. Early intervention services may use partnerships more than other adult psychiatry services, but partnerships could be established in any specialty. Psychiatrists should make sure that appropriate evaluation is built into any new partnership.


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