title: The access and waiting-time standard for first-episode psychosis: an opportunity for identification and treatment of psychosis risk states?
abstract: Expansion of early intervention services to identify and clinically manage at-risk mental state for psychosis has been recently commissioned by NHS England. Although this is a welcome development for preventive psychiatry, further clarity is required on thresholds for definition of such risk states and their ability to predict subsequent outcomes. Intervention studies for these risk states have demonstrated that a variety of interventions, including those with fewer adverse effects than antipsychotic medication, may potentially be effective but they should be interpreted with caution.
authors.affiliation: Early Intervention Service, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, UK; Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Whale
authors.affiliation: Division of Mental Health and Wellbeing, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; North Warwickshire Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, UK.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.affiliation: Early Intervention Service, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, UK; Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK.
authors.forename: Rick
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fraser