[Assessing the planning of support programmes]

This paper describes the procedures in planning support programmes for persons with long term psychiatric disabilities in the Region of Hannover (1.15 mill. inhabitants) and presents some results of a research project concerning process quality of all 570 planning procedures, which took place in the year 2001. The study covers the evaluation of the type and extent of recommended support programmes in the different catchment areas of this region in relation to the psycho-social risk of the patients. Following the presentation of the results deductions for the implementation of a systematic quality development process in community psychiatry are discussed.