Primary care quality for people with serious mental ill health

Severe mental ill health, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, can have a devastating impact on individuals and their families. If people with severe mental ill health receive high quality primary care from their doctors, they may live longer and be in better health. The present study found that patients who received a care plan, an annual physical review and continuity of care, had fewer unplanned hospital admissions, A&E attendances, and lower healthcare costs to the NHS.

Additional information:
doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023135
doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13211

[pebb]

I hope to get control of my mental health one day. Been doing therapy meds for 14 years. Might have to do disability later on. I just want to live a happy life.

[arthurpenfield]

my family had this. nobody lived past 50. I know I'm a die early.too.

[Sheikah_Mage]

Looos like I got a short time on earth 🌍

[qjtvaddict]

Mandatory treatment is needed in the USA

[brianpinion]

do we lose our minds? or just get lost in our minds? what my sorry lawyer said anyway ! either way still went to jail.

[denisekennedy]

seriously you actually have to give a darn to help and thats never going to happen

[eleanorm]

John 5:1-18 New International Version (NIV)
The Healing at the Pool
5 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [4] [b] 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

7 “Sir, ” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”

11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”

12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

The Authority of the Son
16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

[Sonofgod]

I know some of these folks that need professional help

[angelquinonez]

Only one way that truly leads to life, Jesus Christ