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You pays your money and you takes your choice

Helping purchasers to commission an appropriate child and adolescent mental health service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Robert Davey  and
Stephen Littlewood
Robert Davey
Affiliation:
Family Counselling Service, Health Centre, High Street, Winsford, CW7 2AS
Stephen Littlewood
Affiliation:
Family and Child Therapy Service, Clinic Centre, Stanney Lane, Ellesmere Port, South Wirral, L65 9AE
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Abstract

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Health services are now commissioned at a local rather than a regional level. It is essential for local consultants to have an input to the planning and commissioning process. For the child and adolescent psychiatrist this task is complicated by an absence of nationally agreed guidelines on the level of resourcing required for a district child and adolescent mental health service. This paper describes an approach to advising purchasers which offers them a choice of service models that differ in their levels of resourcing. Each of the service models is described briefly. The advantages and flexibility of this approach are discussed.

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Information
Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 5 , May 1996 , pp. 272 - 274
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1996

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