Severe mental illness and last year of life: Identifying service use from a National Health Service digital dashboard in Wales, UK
Unscheduled care use in the last year of life is associated with comorbidity, indicating opportunities for upstream intervention to improve treatment, experience, and quality of life for people with severe mental illness. Further investigation, such as mixed methods approaches to examine experiences of those with severe mental illness in the last year of life, and the human and systems factors influencing the nature and effectiveness of unscheduled delivery, is needed.
Authors
- Anthony Byrne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1413-1496)
- Michael Coffey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0380-4704)
- Fiona Lugg‐Widger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0029-9703)
- Ben Hannigan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2512-6721)
- Viktoriya Velikova
Institutions
- Velindre NHS Trust (GB)
- Swansea University (GB)
- National Health Service Wales (GB)
- Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (AU)
- Cardiff University (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Mental Health
- Published
- 2025-06-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2025.2512306
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.71