Implementation of National Guidelines for Treatment of Psychoses

Implementation support is offered by implementation trainers visiting each clinical unit every two weeks for 6 months and then monthly for 12 months. Support is given only for the practice randomly assigned to support. The aim is to engage leaders and clinicians in identifying and overcoming implementation barriers, and in building systems to support and sustain implementation. Implementation trainers from all sites are trained together and meet every 2-3 month with leaders of the implementation training for supervision, mutual discussion, and exchange of experiences. At the start of the implementation, leaders and clinicians were also invited to a workshop on the practice they have been randomly assigned to receive support for. Toolkits are made available on a website.

No implementation support is offered to clinical units for the practice randomly assigned to no implementation support, of the two practices (of the four practices in the project) that unit has chosen to implement.