title: Mental health: meeting needs with case management.
abstract: Present structures encourage a service-led provision of care. The purchaser-provider split does have the advantage of targeting those most in need and of promoting an individualised service led by client needs. For those with a long-term mental illness, however, a rigid split does not allow multiple needs to be met comprehensively, nor does it allow the work of engaging clients with appropriate services to be based on direct care. Case management is suggested as a flexible means of overcoming these problems.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ford
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ryan
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008603:Mental Health; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D006113:United Kingdom