Intended for healthcare professionals

Rapid response to:

Feature Service Integration

A glimpse of the future of healthcare at the seaside

BMJ 2011; 342 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d1917 (Published 28 March 2011) Cite this as: BMJ 2011;342:d1917

Rapid Response:

Re-inventing the wheel.

Integrated healthcare has been universal practice in psychiatry for
more than 10 years. I find it rather amusing that the evidence to justify
the roll out of this innovation quotes American evidence. Heaven forbid
that General Medicine could be following the lead of Mental Health
services.

Competing interests: No competing interests

12 April 2011
Geoffrey F Searle
Consultant Psychiatrist
Bournemouth