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Abstract

Measuring what medical care does to improve the lives of patients must be at theheart of what we do (Ryland, Carlile and Kingdon, 2021). A crucial part of achievingthe ambition of parity between physical and mental health is for psychiatry to embrace,use and promote outcome measures as a way of demonstrating the positive impactthat well-resourced and structured mental health services can have for patients, theirfamilies, and society more widely.The Royal College of Psychiatrists strongly endorses and recommends the routine useof patient- and clinician-rated outcome measures in psychiatric practice (Tracy et al.,2022). Outcome measurement can improve care planning, progress-tracking, qualityimprovement, service evaluation and research.This report is intended to support clinicians and services to meet the needs and circumstances of the patients they are treating. It sets out some principles governingpatient- and clinician-rated outcome measurement in mental health services and thenprovides more detailed guidance from the College faculties, covering the specialtieswithin psychiatric care.We take a principles-based approach that ensures this document will remain clinicallyuseful in support of, and relevant to, wider national policy for the short, medium, and longterm across all four nations of the United Kingdom. However, there are specific nationalpolicy drivers, for example the NHS England Long Term Plan (NHS England, 2019).

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2024-06-01

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