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Mike J Crawford1,2, Mo Zoha2, Alastair J D Macdonald3
1College Centre for Quality Improvement, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, UK.
Abstract:
Efforts to assess and improve the quality of mental health services are often hampered by a lack of information on patient outcomes. Most mental health services in England have been routinely collecting Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) data for some time. In this article we illustrate how clinical teams have used HoNOS data to identify areas where performance could be improved. HoNOS data have the potential to give clinical teams the information they need to assess the quality of care they deliver, as well as develop and test initiatives aimed at improving the services they provide.
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