Letter to the Editor: There must be a better way: The implementation of a nurse-led mental health service to support people living with a mental health condition

Abstract

<p>Mental health care has progressed greatly since the days when those who were referred to as 'lunatics' were not allowed to travel on the King's Road and had to be brought to mental health facilities by boat because of the Lunacy/Lunatics Act of 1845, and the introduction of the first antipsychotic medication chlor-promazine in 1952, which we now understand to have significant side effects in the doses originally pre-scribed, and in some cases of high dosing, it has been shown that the drug could worsen psychotic symptoms to a point of irreversibility (Boyd-Kimball et al. 2018).</p>