News, reports and resources
We remember and celebrate Dr Shaun Gravestock, who sadly died in January 2021. He was a retired Fellow of the College and a great friend to many in the Faculty. The Faculty paid tribute to him at the Spring Conference on 7 May 2021.
This video features Dr Ken Courtenay, Dr Karen Bretherton, Dr Tom Berney, Dr Andrew Flynn, and Dr Ian Hall.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists was disappointed to learn that women with intellectual disability were abused in the Yew Trees unit, Cygnet Health Care, Essex as reported by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on 23 September 2020 (PDF).
We are concerned about the impact such abuse has on the women. We acknowledge the responsible action taken by managers of Cygnet Health Care to report the incidents to CQC.
The College is concerned that people with intellectual disability in in-patient services continue to suffer from abusive practices since the scandal of Winterbourne View Hospital in 2011. We will work with CQC, other professional bodies and families to support people to receive high-quality in-patient care where necessary.
View the main College resources on COVID-19.
COVID-19 and people with intellectual disability: statement from the Faculty, 27 March 2020 (PDF)
Guidance for the Treatment and Management of COVID ‐19 Among People with Intellectual Disabilities, IASSID Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 10 June 2020
MENCAP COVID-19 information (easy read), March 2020 (PDF)
DNAR notices on people with ID and Autism: letter from NHSEI, 3 April 2020 (PDF)
COVID-19 and Intellectual Disability: RADIANT Guidance for Community & In Patient settings
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- Psychological therapies and people who have intellectual disabilities
- Challenging behaviour: a unified approach – update April 2016 (PDF)
- Psychotropic drug prescribing for people with intellectual disability, mental health problems and/or behaviours that challenge: practice guidelines April 2016 (PDF)
- Community-based services for people with intellectual disability and mental health problems May 2015 (PDF)
- An Intellectual Disability Outcomes Framework for improving the quality of services for people with intellectual disability May 2015 (PDF)
- Care pathways for people with intellectual disability September 2014 (PDF)
- Forensic care pathways for adults with intellectual disability involved with the criminal justice system February 2014 (PDF)
- People with learning disability and mental health, behavioural or forensic problems: the role of in-patient services July 2013 (PDF)
- Minority ethnic communities and specialist learning disability services July 2011(PDF)
- Future role of psychiatrists working with people with learning disability January 2011 (PDF)
- Guidance on copying clinical letters to patients (Word).
- PS05/21 Stopping the overmedication of people with intellectual disability, autism or both (STOMP) and supporting treatment and appropriate medication in paediatrics (STAMP) August 2021
- Stopping Overuse of Medication in People with Learning Disability (STOMP)
- No Medication...? Why...?: Medication might not be the best thing to help people with learning disabilities or autism who are showing challenging behaviours
- PS05/21 Stopping the overmedication of people with intellectual disability, autism or both (STOMP) and supporting treatment and approapriate medication in paediatrics August 2021
- CR230 ADHD in adults with intellectual disability February 2021
- Step Together: Integrating care for people with epilepsy and learning disability November 2020
- CR226 Mental health services for adults with mild intellectual disability March 2020
- CR206 Prescribing anti-epileptic drugs for people with epilepsy and intellectual disability October 2017
- CR203 Management of epilepsy in adults with intellectual disability May 2017
- CR200 Psychiatric services for young people with intellectual disabilities Aug 2016
- CR196 Dementia and people with learning disabilities 2015 see under BPS Resources/Guidance
- CR144 Challenging Behaviour: A Unified Approach June 20017
- Challenging behaviour: a unified approach – update April 2016
- NICE impact: people with a learning disability, November 2021
- Accessible workbook for people with learning disabilities and psychosis, Easy Read version, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, July 2020
- Mental Health Virtual Tribunal - Easy Read version, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Trust, July 2020
- Mental Health Face to Face Tribunal - Easy Read version, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Trust, July 2020
- No Medication...? Why...? Medication might not be the best thing to help people with learning disabilities or autism who are showing challenging behaviours
- World Psychiatric Association (WPA) report on mental health issues in people with intellectual disability
- NICE guideline on Mental Health problems in people with learning disabilities
- Guidance for prison healthcare staff treating patients with learning disabilities
- Guidance on the assessment and diagnosis of intellectual disabilities in adulthood
- Guidance for commissioners of mental health services for people with learning disabilities
- Improving the Health and Wellbeing of People with Learning Disabilities: An Evidence-Based Commissioning Guide for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)
- CIPOLD: Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities
- Department of Health Concordat on Winterbourne View
- Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities Section in the EPA
- Literature for professionals on Intellectual Disabilities Psychiatry: reading list (PDF)
- Improving the care of people with ID: examples of Clinical Audit projects (PDF)
- The GMC’s interactive learning and guidance on intellectual disability issues
- Blake Marsh Lectures (Word).