Reorganisation of the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Courses in the Psychiatric Care Centre - from the Analysis to Implementation A Case Study

Under current conditions psychiatric-psychotherapeutic inpatient care can not be sustained in its present form for much longer. Therefore, our main priority must be to adapt the care structures to the changes in society and psychiatry under consideration of the patients' needs. Cooperation, integration, and interlocking of cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary treatment provision are the challenge of the next decade. They will require networked organisation forms of high complexity as well as new mindsets and approaches. Significant steps and instruments of a structural transformation in the overall therapeutic services are elucidated using the example of a psychiatric care centre and discussed in connection with the introduction of a new reimbursement system for psychiatric and psychosomatic facilities in 2013. New cross-sectoral concepts could ensure care, particularly in regions with lacking or inadequate outpatient structure. Management competences combined with holistic thinking can help to create patient-centred alignments in this context.