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Appleton, Rebecca, Mughal, Faraz, Giacco, Domenico, Tuomainen, Helena, Winsper, Catherine and Singh, Swaran P. (2020) New models of care in general practice for the youth mental health transition boundary. BJGP Open, 4 (5). bjgpopen20X101133. doi:10.3399/bjgpopen20X101133 ISSN 2398-3795.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen20X101133
Abstract
Mental illness represents the highest proportion of disease burden for children and young people in the UK.1 However, despite this, young people can struggle to access timely and appropriate mental health care. One particular barrier to continuity of care occurs when young people reach the upper age limit (usually 18 years) of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). If they require ongoing specialist support, their care should be transferred to an adult mental health service (AMHS), through a purposeful and planned transfer of care known as ‘transition’.
However, only around a quarter of young people transition to AMHS,2 and in the absence of specialist adult mental health care, GPs often become involved in the young person’s care ‘by default’.3 Although GPs become responsible for the young person’s care after they leave CAMHS, they may not have the necessary skills and resources to manage complex mental health difficulties in young people
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Child mental health services -- Great Britain, Mental health services -- Great Britain, Medical care -- Evaluation | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | BJGP Open | ||||||||
Publisher: | Royal College of General Practitioners | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2398-3795 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 15 December 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 4 | ||||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||||
Article Number: | bjgpopen20X101133 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.3399/bjgpopen20X101133 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2020, The Authors | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 October 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 October 2020 | ||||||||
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