Physical Health in Adults

Further Reading

Finding a healthcare practitioner:

 

• How to find a health professional: Audiology, Chiropody or podiatry, Dentistry, Dietetics, Nursing, Ophthalmology – optometry, Speech and language therapy, Physiotherapy, Pharmacy, Sexual health.

 

Useful resources for practitioners

 

• Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health (POMH) Audits of screening for the metabolic syndrome and high dose antipsychotic prescribing which have been shown to be effective in improving clinical practice.

Epidemiology

• Synthesis Report on Mental Disorders and Medical Co-morbidity: Report from the USA with research findings (2011).  

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Clinicial topics

• Monitoring of physical health: Consensus statement of recommendations for physical health monitoring in people with schizophrenia (2004) USA. Page 1344 has a summary

 

• Cardiac complications of psychotropic medication Article in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

 

• Depression, cardiac mortality and all-cause mortality (2009) Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

 

• International League Against Epilepsy: contains detailed information on epilepsy including epilepsy classification and terminology

 

• Epilepsy Action: Information on many aspects of epilepsy

 

• The National Austistic Society: For advice, support and useful information on most aspects of autism

 

• 'Essentials of Physical Health in Psychiatry' from RCPsych Publications

• RAID Rapid Assessment Interface and Discharge (RAID) An award-winning service with a multi-skilled team who asses the health of a person with dementia. This service reduces length of hospital say for people with dementia improving outcomes with less money

 

• How to implement a smoke-free policy (2008) Article in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment with practical tips

 

• Excellent GMC interactive website aiming to help doctors provide better care for people with learning disabilities by: identifying the issues ,highlighting patient perspectives, showing how to put GMC guidance into practice.
  

  The website expands on the guidance in Good Medical Practice and Consent and demonstrates how it applies to practice when treating patients with learning disabilities.

 

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