Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2007) 13: 435-437. doi: 10.1192/apt.bp.107.003590
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Why do psychiatrists have difficulty disengaging with the out-patient clinic?{dagger}

INVITED COMMENTARY ON ... WHY DON'T PATIENTS ATTEND THEIR APPOINTMENTS?

Helen Killaspy

Helen Killaspy is a senior lecturer and honorary consultant in rehabilitation psychiatry at University College London and Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust (Department of Mental Health Sciences, Hampstead Campus, University College London, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, UK. Email: h.killaspy{at}medsch.ucl.ac.uk). Her interests include mental health service research and investigation of factors associated with successful rehabilitation for people with complex needs.

In this issue of APT Mitchell & Selmes present an article detailing why patients miss appointments and how clinicians should respond. Many of the papers quoted relate to the psychiatric out-patient clinic. In this commentary, as well as picking up on some of the themes that emerge from their article, I explore the attachment that psychiatrists seem to have to this particular model of patient contact.


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