Progress on HoNOS

The project by Amin et al (1999) used the final interviews of an outcome study of first-episode psychoses to rate patients on an early version of the 10th edition of the Present State Examination (PSE-10; World Health Organization, 1992) and HoNOS. An unpublished 73-page document (available from P. Bebbington, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, Archway Campus, Whittington Hospital, London N19 5NX, upon request) does little to clarify the procedures. [...]the Department of Health has now completed the development work on its new MDS (Glover et al, 1997). A telephone survey of 140 English trusts providing mental health services, conducted between October 1997 and May 1998, showed that one-third were using HoNOS routinely in one or more service setting.