The Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network--an innovative project to improve quality in UK liaison psychiatry services.

摘要

The Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network (PLAN) is a network of mental health liaison psychiatry services run by a central team at the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI). The CCQI has been in existence since the 1990s and currently runs around 14 national quality improvement programs and audits (for more information, please visit http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/ ccgi). PLAN'S aim is to raise standards and encourage the development of liaison services through a supportive, multidisciplinary, peer-review network. PLAN is open to all ljiaison psychiatry services in the UK and Ireland, and members are encouraged to use the network to share information and ideas with each other.