UK COMMUNITY HEALTH VISITING: CHALLENGES FACED DURING LEAN IMPLEMENTATION

Susan M Carr1,2, Pauline Pearson1, Lesley Young-Murphy3, Barbara Knee Walkers Cleghorn41Centre for Community Health & Education Studies Research & Enterprise, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; 2School of Health, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia; 3NHS North of Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, U

AbstractBackgroundPatients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) have worse physical health and reduced life expectancy compared to the general population.In 2009, the European Psychiatric Association, the European Society of Cardiology and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes published a position paper aimed to improve cardiova