Psychiatrists advocates the adoption of new measures to improve care to people with mental illness unit.

-The current situation shows the existence of large imbalances among the various CC. AA in caring for people with mental illness unit

– the measures are directed both politicians and administrations and the mental health professionals

Oviedo, 2011 November- Joseph Giner, Professor of Psychiatry of the University of Seville has made last Wednesday an appeal so that in the forthcoming reform of the law on promotion of the Autonomy Personal and care to persons in a situation of dependence, is taken into account a number of criteria, in order to provide better care to people with mental health disorders.

The psychiatrist has made their statements in Oviedo, in the context of the 15th National Congress of Psychiatry, which met in the capital of the Principality until November 11 to over 2,000 psychiatrists and mental health of Spain and overseas professionals.

Giner has pointed out that the inclusion of persons with mental illness in the ‘ dependency law ’ became almost at the final moment of processing at the Congress, after a hard work to make this as well by the Spanish psychiatric society (SEP), the Spanish society of Biological Psychiatry (SEPB) and the Spain Foundationwave of Psychiatry and Mental Health (FEPSM). Originally this law was designed primarily with regard to persons with physical dependence, without giving due importance to persons with neuropsychiatric pathologies that show serious dependency problems ”.

All this resulted the adoption of a series of changes, increasing the implementation guides item ”. In this way, it has come to a situation in which professionals responsible for the implementation of guidelines develop this work based on a few training courses. The diversity of courses has led to the law of unit with more restrictive criteria is is implemented in the various autonomous communities of Spain in a few and wider elsewhere. All this has resulted a great inequality and heterogeneity in the attention to persons with a diagnosis of mental illness that is significantly damaging to patients and their families ”.

Measures to improve

The Professor of psychiatry has exhibited at the 15th National Congress of Psychiatry four key steps to try to alleviate the flagrant imbalance in the attention to neuro-psychiatric patients in a situation of dependence on the forthcoming reform of the dependency law, ”.

The first of the measures advocated by psychiatrists is heading to the adoption of new standards on which is collected in a manner expresses and clear the situation of persons with mental illness within the dependency law ”.

The second initiative take to awareness by those responsible for the implementation of this law in the autonomous communities in order to reach a consensus to enable the application in a uniform way of attention this field-dependent patients ”.

The expert pointed out as a third point the need to improve the training of professionals responsible for the implementation of the scales, increasing their knowledge about the characteristics of this group ”.

Finally, the fourth of the desgranados points is geared towards their own collective of mental health professionals, and is none other than the of that psychiatrists take an increased awareness of this problem, become better acquainted with the scales and participate more actively to assess patients ”.