Early Intervention in Psychosis Annual Report 2015-16 Waiting times and access standards can be used to measure and improve services as well as identifying an expected standard of care. In physical health, the NHS Constitution guarantees patients’ right not to wait more than 18 weeks for consultant-led treatment, but mental health treatment has historically been excluded. For the first …

  Sharing Good Practice The South region has 32 EIP teams across 16 mental health providers and 50 commissioning groups. This offers ample opportunity to learn from each other and share the burden of solving problems. Chances are, any problem that one team is experiencing has already been tackled by another team.  In January 2016, NHS England (South) put out …