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At the start of November 2014 I wrote to all 14 regional NHS Boards in Scotland regarding the prescribing of the antipsychotic medication generically called HALOPERIDOL. The 14 regional NHS Boards are responsible … Continue reading Haloperidol in Scotland
This paper was published in the Lancet in late last year. It is a two page article that is worth reading in full. All screenshots below are from this paper: … Continue reading “Doing damage in delirium the hazards of antipsychotic treatment in elderly people”
A BMJ Open study has found that less than half the prescriptions for antipsychotic drugs issued in primary care in the United Kingdom are for the serious mental illnesses for … Continue reading Antipsychotic prescribing
A Scottish citizen, over the age of 65 years, recently wrote to a Parliamentarian with concerns about mandatory cognitive screening in Scotland’s acute hospitals. Following this a helpful letter was … Continue reading “At Liberty” (cognitive screening)
I have sent the following as a Freedom of Information request to 14 NHS Boards in Scotland. All the responses, including tables of statistics, can be read here. 7 November … Continue reading Hospital prescribing of Haloperidol in your NHS Health Board area
The following “Change Page” was published in the British Medical Journal on the 3rd November 2014. The authors were: Anne Corbett, Professor Alistair Burns and Professor Clive Ballard. This is … Continue reading Don’t use antipsychotics routinely to treat agitation and aggression in people with dementia
Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia, has arranged a meeting for the 5th June 2013 to discuss the diagnosis of dementia as much debated of late in the BMJ. … Continue reading “Truth telling and dementia”
Forget sponsorship and free trips—welcome to Pharmacare. BMJ 2012; 344. Ray Moynihan. Published 4 January 2012: Chief Executive Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry [ABPI]. Rapid Response 17th January 2012 Stephen … Continue reading I was not saddened