Iris guidelines

New Iris Guidelines Launched on World Mental Health Day 2012

These guidelines are for service providers and commissioners of mental health services to help them to ensure high quality and cost effective delivery of care and support for people experiencing a first episode of psychosis. Anticipating a new era of practice and policy development, these 2012 guidelines describe the key elements of service design for the delivery of Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP).

Fourteen years on from the original IRIS guidelines, EIP has become established as a preferred model of service for young people with emerging psychosis and their families

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EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHOSIS IRIS NETWORK


INTRODUCTION

The Early Intervention in Psychosis IRIS Network supports the promotion of EI in psychosis.  First formed to support the National EI Programme (2004-2010) this network brings together elected EI regional leads to share issues and solutions.  

THIS WEBSITE IS MAINTAINED BY THE NETWORK, CONTINUING THE LEGACY OF MANY YEARS OF COLLABORATIVE WORK BETWEEN IRIS AND THE NATIONAL EI PROGRAMME.

Briefing on Early Intervention in Psychosis. NHS Confederation. May 2011

ALL IN THE MIND?

PAUL BURSTOW IS INTERVIEWED BY RADIO 4`s CLAUDIA HAMMOND 

Coalition health minister values early intervention in psychosis on radio 4's All in the Mind programme

‘The evidence is pretty compelling that by intervening early you can make a real difference; you can avoid someone being admitted into acute hospital care so this is really a no brainer. It makes sense to invest in early interventions to go back upstream and make sure we prevent these sorts of problems’.

Early Intervention: From Margin to Mainstream.

Jellycat Media reviews the last ten years in the film below

 

REPORT

Joint working at the interface Early Intervention in Psychosis and specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

Suicide risk management in the first episode of psychosis. by Paddy Power and |Stehen McGowan April 2011

Click here for GP Commissioning resources - the evidence base, service models and cost-impact.

 

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

“I have seen how much progress early intervention teams have made, how innovative they have been, and the impact they are having.  I now believe that early intervention will be the most important and far reaching reform of the NSF era.  Crisis resolution has had the most immediate effect but I think early intervention will have the greatest effect on people’s lives."

Professor Louis Appleby,  National Director for Mental Health October 10th 2008 Policies and Practice for Europe (DH/WHO Europe conference attended by 35 European Countries)