Developing a Clinical Pathway in Depression: Sharing Our Experience

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The Second National Mental Health Plan [ 1 ] has as one of its key themes, a focus on the quality and effectiveness of services with an emphasis on outcomes for consumers and carers. This focus on quality and outcomes results in an increasing interest in clinical practice guidelines, benchmarking of services and the development and evaluation of models of best practice. One way to progress these issues within clinical services is to develop clinical pathways for groups of patients with similar conditions.