Mental health patients want immediate diagnosis, says report Mental health diagnosis needs to be useful for patients and not simply a meaningless label, a report suggests.
Research from Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and University of East Anglia suggests patients would prefer to be told their diagnosis face-to-face rather than by other means.
However, doctors said that a diagnosis can be complex and take time to assess.
Royal College of GPs chairwoman Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard told the BBC a diagnosis should be a "starting point".
She said it should be the position "from which we can begin a course of treatment tailored to that individual, in partnership with them. No patient should ever see a diagnosis as a 'meaningless label'." BBC News
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Research from Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and University of East Anglia suggests patients would prefer to be told their diagnosis face-to-face rather than by other means.
However, doctors said that a diagnosis can be complex and take time to assess.
Royal College of GPs chairwoman Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard told the BBC a diagnosis should be a "starting point".
She said it should be the position "from which we can begin a course of treatment tailored to that individual, in partnership with them. No patient should ever see a diagnosis as a 'meaningless label'." BBC News
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