Citation

Bastiampillai T, Allison S, Gupta A, Chan SK. Lancet Psychiatry 2016; 3(7): 604.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; The State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30099-2

PMID

27371986

Abstract

In The Lancet Psychiatry, Nav Kapur and colleagues1 analysed mental health service changes in England between 1997 and 2012, to investigate correlations with suicide rates. Importantly, the investigators identified that some organisational changes had a positive effect on reducing suicide rates, including the implementation of the NICE guidelines for depression. However, the study did not include two of the most important organisational changes during this time: the substantial reduction in psychiatry bed numbers and significantly reduced admission rates for affective disorders in the UK...

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