Intended for healthcare professionals

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Education And Debate

Developing learning organisations in the new NHS

BMJ 2000; 320 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.320.7240.998 (Published 08 April 2000) Cite this as: BMJ 2000;320:998

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Learning Organisations in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

In the last five years, pioneering work on using Learning
Organisations principles and model in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Services have been carried out by Prof. Peter Birleson in Melbourne,
Australia. The experience of using the model and the changes in mental
health organisational structure and culture in improving quality is
described in his publications which the readers are referred to.

Learning Organisations: a suitable model for improving mental health
services? Australia and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 1998;32:214-222

Turning Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services into Learning
Organisations. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 1999;4:265-274

Competing interests: No competing interests

09 April 2000
Hemamali Perera
Locum Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Iddesleigh House Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Exeter, Devon