Personality Disorder Service published in prestigious US Psychiatric journal

Mersey Care's Psychotherapy and Personality Disorder Hub's work over the last three years at their base in Spring House, Liverpool has been published in a prestigious US Psychiatric Journal.

The study,  written by clinicians including Mersey Care’s Dr Simon Graham and Dr Ivan Sebalo, is titled 'Designing Community Services for People With Borderline Personality Disorder to Reduce Hospitalizations,' and has been published in the US journal, “Psychiatric Services,” which is part of the American Psychiatric Association.

This research shows the effectiveness of our service after three years in reducing out of area hospital placements (OATs) and local admissions by setting up our community services.

Highlights of the paper include:

• Reorganising services for patients with borderline personality disorder can reduce OATs and local hospital admissions and cost savings may be used to establish more appropriate community based services
• People with unstable borderline personality disorder who are not functioning well enough to engage in evidence based psychotherapy may be able to effectively engage in psychological interventions that promote stabilisation
• Partial cost analysis showed that when startup and ongoing costs are considered, alongside savings achieved by avoiding hospitalisations for patients with borderline personality disorder, reorganisation of services appears to reduce overall health care costs.