Managing outcome performance in mental health using HoNOS: experience at St Andrew’s Healthcare
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AIMS AND METHOD Modern mental healthcare providers must demonstrate service-level clinical effectiveness to key stakeholders.We introduced two performance indicators of clinical effectiveness based on outcome data from routinely collected Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) and HoNOS-secure assessments across St Andrew’s Healthcare, a charity providing in-patient services in Northampton and Essex.We present outcome data from the period 2004-2007.
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