Obtaining the correct information

The carer of a middle aged man with schizophrenia alerted one of our community nurses that he had had a relapse. Among other symptoms, he was reported to have been receiving information from his salad cream and had stopped attending his day centre. He lived in a private residential care home but had a considerable forensic history and had lived in a special hospital for many years in his youth. More recently, his mental health had improved substantially, and he was free from …