We need person-centred mental health care, not more psychiatrists | Letter

Dr Jennifer Poole says a less medicalised approach using therapists other than consultant psychiatrists would be more effective in the long termRegarding your article (Scottish NHS boards pay up to £837 an hour for locums amid psychiatry crisis, 7 October), the solution to this increasingly untenable situation is a change of approach to mental health. Psychiatrists (medically qualified doctors who go on to treat emotional and mental health issues with medications) are necessarily focused o