Improving Medication Safety In Mental Health And Reducing The Impact Of Side Effects That Lead To Physical Health Problems

Venue: ICO Conference Centre
22 Berners Street
London
W1T 3DD

Date: 14 May 2014

Synopsis: This conference will focus on improving medication safety in mental health, reducing the impact of medication side effects, improving prescribing and reducing the reliance on medications in mental health. Practical case study sessions will highlight how organisations have reduced the impact of side effects of psychotropic medications on the physical health of their patients, how they have reduced medications overall, and improved adherence where medication use is recommended. Sessions will also look at the scale of medication errors in mental health and how the number and severity of errors in terms of harm can be reduced. The closing session will look at the developing national NHS safety thermometer and in particular the new medication safety thermometer in mental health.

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“We must make sure we tackle the higher levels of mortality and reduced life expectancy in patients with mental illness and we are committed to pushing mental health to the top of the NHS agenda”

Dr Geraldine Strathdee, National Clinical Director for Mental Health, NHS England, 22 January 2014

“Patients with schizophrenia will on average die 14.6 years earlier, bipolar 10.1 and patients with schizoaffective disorder eight years earlier than the general population. They are dying of the same conditions as the general population but have the life expectancy of people living in the 1950s.”

Dr Geraldine Strathdee, National Clinical Director for Mental Health, NHS England, 22 January 2014

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URL:
http://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/medication-safety-mental-health-physical-health

Contact:
Kerry Tarrant Healthcare Conferences UK 01932 429933 020 8181 6491 (fax) kerry@hc-uk.org.uk