Mental Health

Public Health England has produced a resource for healthcare professionals to promote the prevention of ill health by using interventions and tools to improve people’s physical and mental health [...]

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has produced guidance on co-production in mental health commissioning entitled ‘Working Well Together’. Co-production is based on the premise that the people [...]

In April, the Royal College of Psychiatrists issued a position statement on the use of antidepressants. It contained a number of recommendations about the treatment of depression. These are [...]

NICE QS187– Learning disability: care and support of people growing older This guideline was published in July 2019 and covers the specific additional challenges in terms of care and support [...]

QS184 – Dementia This NICE quality standard was published in June 2019 and covers preventing dementia, and assessment, management and health and social care support for people with dementia. It [...]

Stopping the over-medication of children and young people with a learning disability, autism or both (STOMP) and supporting treatment and appropriate medication in paediatrics (STAMP). This [...]

Cariprazine (Reagila) is a new second-generation antipsychotic which is licensed to treat schizophrenia in adults (over 18 years). It is only available as an oral capsule and is presented in [...]

Public Health England has produced a suicide prevention profile in order to help develop understanding at a local level and support an intelligence-driven approach to suicide prevention. It [...]

I spent the two first weeks of October 2018 volunteering with a Basque NGO called Salvamento Marítimo Humanitario (SMH) – a humanitarian rescue association in the Greek island of Chios, [...]

This medicines evidence commentary document was published in February 2019 and covers the incidence, management and risk of suicide in over 65s with a history of self-harm. A UK study found that [...]