> It was during my own nursing training that the currently favoured term of “service user” gained traction, as it was deemed more neutral. Patients overwhelmi

> It was during my own nursing training that the currently favoured term of “service user” gained traction, as it was deemed more neutral. Patients overwhelmingly prefer the term patient, and this holds true every time we ask them what they want to be called. Service user is a term imposed upon them by well-intentioned mental health professionals and academics who don't recognise their own power dynamic and who do a poor job of coproduction. > while the council of the Royal College of Psychiatrists recently recommitted to “patient”. ...after they asked people what their preferred term is.