Written Question · S2W-05135 · Session 2
Further to the answer to question S2W-3472 by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 November 2003, why information on psychological intervention or other …
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-3472 by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 November 2003, why information on psychological intervention or other non-drug therapies, in respect of (a) severe and enduring mental illness, (b) attention deficit hyperkenetic disorder, (c) depression and (d) dementia, is not held centrally.
The answer
Unlike prescriptionmedications dispensed in the community, psychological therapies are not paidfor centrally and as a result there is no single stream for data onpsychological interventions.
Collectionof enhanced information to capture psychological interventions provided willrequire considerable additional infrastructure and organisational development,including agreement on national definitions for different psychologicalapproaches. Work on this is beginning, through the Improving Mental HealthInformation Programme (iMHIP), eCare and the eHealth strategy.
Certain information isalready available on aspects of psychiatric and psychological health care, assummarised in the June 02 publication Mental Health in Scotland: InformationSources and Selected Insights (available at http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/collect2.jsp?pContentID=1554).
Collectionof enhanced information to capture psychological interventions provided willrequire considerable additional infrastructure and organisational development,including agreement on national definitions for different psychologicalapproaches. Work on this is beginning, through the Improving Mental HealthInformation Programme (iMHIP), eCare and the eHealth strategy.
Certain information isalready available on aspects of psychiatric and psychological health care, assummarised in the June 02 publication Mental Health in Scotland: InformationSources and Selected Insights (available at http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/collect2.jsp?pContentID=1554).
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S2W-05135 by reference.