title: Contributions of graduate mental health workers in primary care.
abstract: Graduate primary care mental health workers are part of the NHS strategy for improving the mental health of the primary care population. This article describes the role and potential contribution of these health workers to patients' mental wellbeing in primary care. Readers are informed about the need for graduate worker, and some of the issues that arose on implementing this initiative in one English region.
authors.affiliation: Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, Essex. t.a.schafer@anglia.ac.uk
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schafer
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wrycraft
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D008605:Mental Health Services; D011320:Primary Health Care; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom; D000078329:Workforce