Timely rehabilitation for people experiencing complex psychosis – EIP’s crucial role in the pathway
Around half of people moving through EIP face the prospect of substantial ongoing difficulties from either an unremitting or a relapsing patterns of symptoms accompanied by functional impairments.
For these individuals and their families the new NICE guidance on rehabilitation is welcome and overdue 
The challenge for EIP services is to identify those who will require ongoing support from specialised rehabilitation services and help them engage this care pathway in a timely manner.
Professor Jo Smith presentation to RC Psych Faculty of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry – slides. 
And take a look at Professor Paul French’s blog 
for the IEPA about the relevance of the new NICE guidelines to EIP services – its essential reading for all EIP practitioners. With clear recommendations to commissioners and providers your local pathway should be explicit.