Ninety day improvements reported in Psychiatric Bulletin
Increasingly providers of mental healthcare are required to prove the effectiveness of their services. At St Andrew's two performance indicators based on outcome data bave been introduced. The Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) and the adaption for those in an in-patient setting; HoNOS-secure.
The outcome data collected at our Northampton and Essex sites over a period of time between 2004 and 2007 displayed a consistent 90-day improvement which stabilised over time.
Read the full paper published in Psychiatric Bulletin.