1 Letter to the Editor Counselling services embedded within rheumatology clinics could help bridge the gap in mental health care provision for adults with rheumatic diseases Georgia Hayward 1 , Rachel Mandela 2 , Andrew Barr 1,3,4 , Jane Freeston 1,3,4 , Claire Vandevelde 1,3,4 , Helena Marzo-Ortega 1, 3, 4 1. Rheumatology Department, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leeds, UK 2.Clinical Psychology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leeds, UK 3. NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK 4. Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Address for correspondence: Dr Helena Marzo-Ortega LIRMM Second Floor Chapel Allerton Hospital Leeds LS7 4SA UK Email: H.Marzo-Ortega@leeds.ac.uk ORCID: HMO 0000-0002-9683-3407 ORCID: AB 0000-0002-5618-8685 ORCID: JF. 0000-0003-0358-338X Page 1 of 6 Manuscripts submitted to Rheumatology Advances in Practice 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/rheumap/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rap/rkac080/6754829 by guest on 13 October 2022