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Attendance at child psychiatry clinics

Comparison with attendance at child medical and surgical clinics

Department of Psychiatry, School of Neurosciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP;

Paul McArdle, Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Fleming Nuffield Unit for Children and Young People, Newcastle upon Tyne

^* Correspondence

A widespread perception exists that attendance at child psychiatry clinics is especially poor. The reported rate of non-attendance at a child psychiatry out-patient clinic is 61%. However, other child health clinics also suffer a high rate of non-attendance. In this paper we examine the hypothesis that rates of non-attendance are higher in child psychiatry than in other child health out-patient clinics.