We need person-centred mental health care, not more psychiatrists | Letter
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"Studies have shown that a person-centred, non-diagnosis-led and least-medicalised approach is more effective, quicker and with fewer clinical returns over the longer term."
"What is needed is a shift from a medical model of mental health to a within context approach, which would enable a wider number of therapists to assist those in need."
"This would also reduce expenditure on expensive private services designed to make a profit for companies that drain vast amounts of much-needed revenue from our NHS."
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