ANTLER + REDUCE
The ANTLER study The REDUCE trial Over millennia, philosophers, alive and dead, have agreed that science, a priori, must be based on a position of neutrality. This quest is one … Continue reading ANTLER + REDUCE
Tag: Defeat Depression Campaign
Chaired the expert committee which recommended . . .
Chaired the Expert committee which “recommended that the use of depression symptom questionnaires be financially incentivised” The title image is based on declarations made by Professor Tony Kendrick in his … Continue reading Chaired the expert committee which recommended . . .
Double the amount of a decade ago
As published in the Sunday Express, 19 May 2024,
We must heed the lessons of experience
My letter, as published in the British Journal of General Practice, May 2023 [please visit BJGP to read letters by six other contributors] :
“The Defeat Depression Campaign is not a useful exercise”
The following letter by R P Snaith was published in the Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 7 , July 1994 , pp. 432: Professor Robin Priest, one of … Continue reading “The Defeat Depression Campaign is not a useful exercise”
“Glossy Campaign”
The following correspondence was published in the Psychiatric Bulletin in the early years of the Defeat Depression Campaign. This correspondence highlights concerns that this educational campaign was based on a … Continue reading “Glossy Campaign”
“Promulgating therapeutic recommendations”
The following letter, written by Dr Philip Cowen and Dr Chris Thompson, was published in the BMJ in October 1994 [this, as it happens, being mid-way through the ‘Defeat Depression … Continue reading “Promulgating therapeutic recommendations”
Mass prescribing
Why in the UK do we have mass prescribing of antidepressants? Nearly 1 in 5 adults are now taking an antidepressant. It is now being asked if this is a … Continue reading Mass prescribing