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What is POMH-UK?

 

 

The national Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health (POMH-UK) aims to help specialist mental health Trusts/healthcare organisations improve their prescribing practice.  POMH-UK, with its member organisations, identifies specific topics within mental health prescribing and develops audit-based Quality Improvement Programmes (QIPs).

 

 

Organisations are able to benchmark their performance against one another and identify where their prescribing practice meets nationally agreed standards and where it falls short.  Wide participation in QIPs creates a picture of prescribing practice nationally.

 

 

POMH-UK was originally funded by a tapering grant from an independent charity, the Health Foundation, under its ‘Engaging with Quality’ initiative. The project is now funded by subscriptions from member organisations. Neither POMH-UK nor the Health Foundation has any links with the pharmaceutical industry.

  
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NEWS:

1 Feb 2012

 

Data entry for Topic 1f and 3f: Prescribing high dose and combination antipsychotics on adult psychiatric wards is now open. Click here to enter data. NOTE: you will need your log-in details to enter data. Please acquire these from your local POMH-UK lead. Data entry will end 9 March 2012.

 

3 Jan 2012

Audit tool for Topic 1f & 3f: Prescribing high dose and combination antipsychotics on adult, psychiatric and forensic wards have been sent to all POMH-UK local leads for data collection. Data entry will open on Wednesday 1st Feb 2012.

15 Dec 2011

 

Data entry for Topic 10b has now closed. You will receive data cleaning queries and your Trust dataset for checking soon.

 

12 Dec 2011

 

Presentations from all three POMH-UK regional workshops are now available in the member's area. You will need to log in to access these using your POMH member details. Please contact your local POMH-UK lead for log in details.

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Find out more and join

 

Find out more information about POMH-UK QIPs and how the project is run, and information on registration.

Public resources

 

Access to information designed for service users and carers and the publications list.

Member resources, interventions and

data entry area

 

Password protected area for current members, with access to resources, the data entry page and opportunities to feedback.

 

Please note you will have to log in with the appropriate POMH username and password to access these areas.

 

Contact us

 

If you have any questions, or need more information then please contact one of the team.

 

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