Users and Carers [61]

The effect of schizophrenia on a person’s life experience and opportunities are considerable; service users and carers need help and support to deal with their future and to cope with the changes the illness brings.

Healthcare professionals should work in partnership with service users and carers, offering help, treatment and care in an atmosphere of hope and optimism.

This section of the NICE Implementation Resource Tool website brings together a wide variety of information knowledge and resources that will be useful in caring for people with schizophrenia. Much of the information in this section may also be found in other sections of this website, including the resources section where you can search for information using an interactive database.

Providing information to users and carers is a key element in implementing NICE Guideline, Schizophrenia Core Interventions in the Treatment and Management of Schizophrenia in primary and secondary care, please click on the images at the right hand side of the screen to view NICE publications.

Section 1.1.4 Working in partnership with service users and carers

Clear and intelligible information should be made available to service users and their families about schizophrenia and its possible causes, and about the possible role families can have in promoting recovery and reducing relapse.

Section 1.1.6 Providing good information and mutual support

Health professionals should provide accessible information about schizophrenia and its treatment to service users and carers; this should be considered an essential part of the routine treatment and management of schizophrenia.