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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 . . .
As published in the Sunday Express, 19 May 2024,
My letter, as published in the British Journal of General Practice, May 2023 [please visit BJGP to read letters by six other contributors] :
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”
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”
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”
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
Nearly 30 years ago the ‘Defeat Depression Campaign’ was launched. It ran for 5 years. It was sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry and was the “concerted policy” of the Royal … Continue reading Based on a theory