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Accreditation for
Acute Inpatient Mental Health Services (AIMS)
Accreditation of Library and Information Services in the Health
Sector
Autism
Accreditation
Better
Services for People who Self-harm
Child Health
Informatics Centre (CHIC)
CHKS
Clinical
Pathology Accreditation (UK) Ltd
Community of
Communities
Electroconvulsive Therapy Accreditation Service (ECTAS)
Health Promoting Hospitals and Trusts
The
Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health–UK (POMH-UK)
Quality Network for Forensic
Mental Health Services
Quality
Improvement Network for Multi-agency Child and Adolescent Mental
Health Services
Quality Network
for In-Patient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (QNIC)
RDB Star Rating Ltd
(Residential and Domiciliary Care Benchmarking)
Trent
Accreditation Scheme |
The Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health–UK (POMH-UK)
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Corporate origins, affiliations, memberships |
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Objectives |
To become the recognized disseminator of independent and
high quality information about medicines practice in
mental health.
To provide a central dynamic data collection system to
manage information about prescribing and administering
psychotropic medicine, in order to:
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Identify and quantify sub-optimal aspects of
prescribing practice;
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Compare
and ‘benchmark’ prescribing practice across services
and against ‘best practice’
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Monitor
change in the quality of prescribing practice over
time and support measurement of the impact of
interventions to improve quality;
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Inform intervention development as well as act as an
intervention itself – leading to measurable changes
in prescribing practice.
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Scope and focus of programme |
Topic 1: Prescribing high dose and
combined antipsychotics on adult acute and psychiatric
intensive care (PICU) wards
Topic 2: Monitoring the physical
health of assertive outreach team patients who are
prescribed antipsychotics
Topic 3: Prescribing high dose and
combination antipsychotics on forensic wards
Topic 4: Benchmarking anti-dementia
prescribing
Topic 5: Benchmarking the prescribing
of high dose and combination antipsychotics on adult
acute and PICU wards
Topic 6: Assessment of side effects
of psychotropic medication
Topic 7: Monitoring of patients
prescribed lithium |
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Products and services |
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Members receive latest
information about best prescribing practice,
participate in e-discussion groups and receive other
core information services.
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Members have the option of participating in
topic-based audits of various prescribing issues.
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Members (Trusts) establish local leadership groups
including a psychiatrist, a psychiatric pharmacist,
a clinical governance lead, a senior nurse, and 2
service users to manage projects locally.
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Data
from audit topics are collected by participants and
returned to the Observatory for analysis and report
production.
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Feedback events include action planning workshops
for members to apply learning to service
improvement.
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Standards |
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Web-site |
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/cru/pomh.htm |
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Please confirm that the appropriate authority (Chief
Executive, Director, Management Council, etc., as
appropriate) has given permission for a link to be made
from the UKAF website to your organisation’s website:
Permission granted |
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