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Category Archives: Royal College of Psychiatrists
National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals: Spotlight Audit on Psychotropic Medication (HQIP / RCP)
Summary The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) and Royal College of Psychiatrists have published a spotlight audit on the use of psychotropic medicines in the care of people with dementia in general hospitals in England and Wales. Psychotropic medication may … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Antipsychotics, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Alternatives to Antipsychotic Drugs, Alternatives to Antipsychotic Medication, Anticonvulsants: as Mood Stabilisers, Antidepressants, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Harm: Psychotropic Dosages and Drug Interactions, Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Dementia Care in Acute Settings, Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Dementia Care in the Acute Hospital, Dementia Friendly Acute Hospitals, Dementia in General Hospital Inpatients, Dementia Medications, Discharge Medicines Review Service, Drugs for BPSD, Falls Prevention, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), Hypnotics and Anxiolytics, Medicines Optimisation, Medicines Reconciliation, National Audit of Dementia (Care in General Hospitals), National Audit of Dementia (NAD), National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals: Spotlight Audit on Psychotropic Medication (2020), National Audit of Dementia Care in Hospitals, National Audit of Dementia: Spotlight Report on Psychotropic Medication, National Falls Prevention CQUIN, Patient Discharge, Patient Discharge Summaries, Patient Notes, Patient Records, Patient Safety, Patterns of Psychotropic Prescriptions, Potential Harms of Antipsychotic Use, Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMs), Potentially Inappropriate Medicine Combinations, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing (PIP), Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Older People With Dementia, Prescribing of Antipsychotic Drugs For People With Dementia, Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs, Prescription of Psychotropic Medication Initiated in Hospitals for BPSD, Prescriptions Reviewed on Discharge, Prevalence of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing of Antipsychotic Drugs, Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Psychotropic Drug Cessation, Psychotropic Drug Use (Antipsychotics Antidepressants Hypnotics Anxiolytics Anticonvulsants Antidementia Drugs), Psychotropic Drugs, Psychotropic Medication, Psychotropic Prescribing, QI: Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement, Reducing Antipsychotic Prescriptions in Dementia, Reducing Avoidable Harm, Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy, Reducing Inappropriate Use of Antipsychotics in Dementia, Regular and PRN Prescriptions, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP), Royal College of Psychiatrists Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI), Royal College of Psychiatrists: National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Centre for Quality Improvement, Use of Antipsychotics for BPSD in UK Hospitals
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Demand for Mental Health Inpatient Beds in England (BBC News / NHS Strategy Unit)
Summary Hundreds more NHS mental health beds would be required in England to end the practice of sending patients far from home for treatment (so called “out-of-area placements”). An NHS Strategy Unit report explores the pressures on inpatient mental health … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS), Average Distances Travelled by Patients at CCGs and Local Area Teams, Care Integration, Commission on Acute Adult Psychiatric Care, Commissioning for Parity of Esteem, Commissioning Support Units (CSUs), Community Care, Community Care Beds and Services, Community Mental Health, Community Mental Health Services, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Mental Health and Social Care Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Far-Away Placements in Mental Health Services: Adults in Acute Inpatient Care, Improving Acute Psychiatric Care for Adults in England, Inappropriate Far-Away Placements, Inappropriate OAPs (sic), Inappropriate Out of Area Treatments, Independent Commission on Acute Adult Psychiatric Care, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Mental Health Inpatient Capacity, Mental Health Patients Forced to Travel, Mental Health Policy, Mental Health Services, NHS Commissioning Support Units (CSUs), NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU, NHS Strategy Unit, Out of Area Placements (OAPs), Out of Area Placements in Mental Health Services: Adults in Acute Inpatient Care, Out-of-Area Care, Parity Between Mental and Physical Health, Parity of Esteem, Reducing Out of Area Placements (OAPs), Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP), Sustainability and Transformation Partnership, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs)
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World Mental Health Day (Department of Health / MHF / NHS England / Health Foundation)
Summary Today is World Mental Health Day. Full Text Link Reference Osterloh, M. (2015). World Mental Health Day and the power of small gestures. London: Department of Health, October 10th 2015. This is hosted by the Mental Health Foundation (MHF): … Continue reading
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Delirium, Department of Health, Depression, Health Foundation, In the News, International, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Mental Health Foundation, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Academic Services, Age Appropriate Mental Health Services, Age Appropriate Old Age Psychiatry Services For Older People With Mental Health Problems, Age Discrimination, Age Discrimination in Mental Health, Alistair Burns: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Older People’s Mental Health, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Awareness, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Campaigns, Awareness Raising, Black and Minority Ethnic (BME), Black and Minority Ethnic Elders, BME Communities, BME: Black and Minority Ethnic, Caregiver’s Mental Health, Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS), Commissioning Older People’s Mental Health Services, Common Mental Health Disorders, Common Mental Health Problems (CMHP), Cost of Mental Health Problems, Crisis Prevention, Crisis Support, Dementia: Community Based Support, Dementia: Dementia in General Hospitals, Dementia: Early Identification and Intervention in People With Dementia, Dementia: Intensive Case Management, Dementia: Late Stage Dementia, Dementia: People With Dementia in Care Homes, Dementia: Post Diagnostic Support, Dementia: Reducing Stigma and Raising Awareness, Dementia: Young Onset Services, Deprivation, Developing an Ideal Old Age Service: Royal College of Psychiatrists (2013), Discrimination / Stigma, Dr James Warner: Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry at Royal College of Psychiatrists, Elderly Forensic Psychiatric Services, Elderly People With Mental Illness, Emergency Admissions, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry, Fundamental Facts About Mental Health 2015, IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Mental Health Services, Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT), Improving Perinatal Mental Health, Interaction between Physical and Mental Health, Investment in Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Managing Ongoing Physical and Mental Health Conditions, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Mental Health and Work, Mental Health Crisis, Mental Health Crisis Care, Mental Health Foundation, Mental Health Foundation (MHF), Mental Health Problems, Mental Health Services, Mind, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, No Health Without Mental Health, North Southwark Community Mental Health Team (NSCMHT) for Older People, OASIS: Older Adults Support in Southwark, Old Age Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Old Age Forensic Services, Old Age Psychiatry, Older Adult Mental Health (OPMH), Older People’s Mental Health Services, Older Persons’ Mental Health, OPMH: Older Adult Mental Health, Parity Between Mental and Physical Health, Parity of Esteem, People With Learning Disabilities, People With Learning Disabilities Who Develop Dementia, Power of Small Gestures: World Mental Health Day (2015), Prevalence of Mental Illness, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Professor Alistair Burns, Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network (PLAN) (Royal College of Psychiatrists), Rapid Assessment Interface and Discharge (RAID), Reducing Stigma, Rethink Mental Illness, Serious Mental Illness (SMI), Social Deprivation, Social Isolation, Socio-Economic Deprivation, Stigma, Stigma and Discrimination, Substance Misuse in Older People, Tackling Stigma and Improving Attitudes to Mental Illness, Talking Therapies, Think Ahead, Time to Change, Unmet Mental Health Needs, Unmet Needs, World Federation of Mental Health, World Mental Health Day, World Mental Health Day (2015), Young Onset Dementia Services
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