The National Service Framework: a scaffold for mental health. Implementation is key to determining whether it's a support or a gallows.

摘要: The National Service Framework for Mental Health, part of the programme to establish better quality and reduce unacceptable variations in NHS,1 has just been published.2 This, an accompaniment introduction Institute Clinical Excellence (NICE), sets new standards delivery monitoring mental health services. In his Frank Dobson, secretary state health, claims that these national are founded on “a solid base evidence” provided by external reference group (chaired Professor Graham Thornicroft Psychiatry). services have always had difficulties setting standards, because uncertainty over whether subjective patient oriented 3 4 or “service” outcomes illness 5 preferable, so framework set itself ambitious objectives. Has it succeeded? answer is same as response asking wiseto plant a tree desert. It seems churlish give …