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Choice and decision-making
- Authors:
- WARNER Lesley, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, July 2006, pp.27-30.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
In July 2005, the Department of Health commissioned the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and the King's Fund to conduct a review of the literature on choice and decision making in mental health. The literature review included a mini-consultation with service users, carers and staff, and aimed to collect evidence on user choice and decision making in the planning and provision of mental health services and treatments, examples of good practice, and tools that support service users in exercising choice. The results of the review found that, despite examples of good practice both here and abroad, the Department of Health's vision of choice for people who use mental health services is a long way off.