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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:

14 May 2012

 

Data entry for Topic 12a: Prescribing for people with a personality disorder  has now closed. Participating Trusts will receive their datasets and data cleaning queries by the end of the week.



1 May 2012

 

Data entry has been extended for Topic 12a: Prescribing for people with a personality disorder - this will now close on Friday 11th May 2012.  Click here to enter data.
NOTE: You will need to enter your POMH-UK member details to access the area and then your POMH-UK data entry details to enter the data. Please obtain these from your POMH-UK lead.

 

2 April 2012

 

Data entry for Topic 12a: Prescribing for people with a personality disorder is now open. Click here to enter data. Deadline for data submission is Friday 4 May 2012.
NOTE: You will need your POMH-UK data entry details in order to submit data. Please contact your local POMH-UK lead if you do not have these.

 

19 March 2012

 

Data entry for Topic 1f and 3f: Prescribing high dose and combination antipsychotics on adult psychiatric wards has closed. You will receive data cleaning queries and your dataset shortly.

 

5 March 2012

 

Presentations from our event "Promoting change in prescribing practice in mental health" held with The Health Foundation are now available in our members area. You will need to log in to access these. Please ask your POMH-UK lead for log-in details.

 

15 Feb 2012

 

We are pleased to announce our new programme for 2013-2014 in which we introduce QIPs on three new Topics. Find out more on in our February news update.

 

See more news stories here.

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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