Boring but important: the community mental health team

摘要

Green and Gowans are right to worry about what has happened to the seriously mentally ill when the number of psychiatric beds has been mercilessly cut.1 However, it may be misleading when they talk of ‘a lack of evidence for community teams’ and then talk about crisis teams (CTs). The fact that CTs — often heralded as ‘the’ alternative to admission — perform poorly under scrutiny2 does not mean that community care is by necessity poor.