A SCHEME set up to provide mental health patients with on-the-spot advice is being extended across Teesside and parts of Yorkshire.
The Patient Advice and Liaison Service (Pals) has been piloted in Middlesbrough, Stockton and Hartlepool for the past year.
Its success has led to a Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust decision to extend it to patients with mental health problems in Redcar and Cleveland, Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale and South Easington.
The project offers confidential advice and support for patients and their families or carers.
Since the launch of the scheme, the trust said it had received fewer formal complaints.
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