Personality disorder programme No longer a diagnosis of exclusion

Consultant psychiatrist Rex Haigh, with a number of colleagues, has this week begun a clinical review of the 11 PD Innovative Centres (used to be called Pilots). Throughout his blog, for the next few weeks, he will be sharing his findings. The link to his blog has been posted on www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/blog He can also be followed on www.boddsblog.blogspot.com

Here is an extract of his first blog:

“Now, as one of the purposes of this magical mystery tour of the country is for ‘getting the message out there’. So just what is ‘the message’, and why use a blog as part of it? The problem is a bit of a Catch-22: we won’t know just what the message is until we have been round everywhere, and we won’t know how best to use the blog until we have talked to everybody about it.

“In our minds, the message is something like ‘people around the country, in these different innovation centres, which used to be called PD pilots, have done some extraordinary work in completely new ways, involving all levels of the system, and it needs to be taken seriously’. At least that’s the message we’re starting out with; we are collecting mountains of data to back it up as we go round, and it might end up quite different.

“The medium is quite another aspect. The one definite thing is going to be a rigorous report which will analyse, summarise and communicate everything we gather on our travels, and suitable parts of it will be put through various channels that are available to us at the Department of Health. The rest will ‘emerge’ as the process develops – and it is the softer, more varied and less concrete.
http://boddsblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/triple-whammy.html