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Faculty of General Adult Psychiatry Spring Conference 2024

Faculty of General Adult Psychiatry Conference 2024

Books

• Primary Care Mental Health (2nd edition)

Reports

• Models of Care 
• Why QI? A guide to quality improvement (PDF)
• Good mental health services for young people (PDF)
• Compassion in care: ten things you can do to make a difference (PDF)
• Improving physical health for people with mental illness: what can be done? (PDF)
• Acute Care Commission: General Adult faculty final response (PDF)
• CR 164 - Parents as patients: Supporting the needs of patients who are parents and their children. (PDF)

Better Data, Better Care: Understanding & using data for quality improvement

Friday 22 February 2019

All the available presentations from the event have been posted here for information.

All presentations are the intellectual property of the author and may not be copied or distributed nor may any information, images or data included in these presentations be reproduced without prior written consent of the author.

What we can learn from NHS Benchmarking Data by Stephen Watkins

Purposeful and productive community services by Dr Ranjeet Shah

Making sense of the numbers: A whole system approach from Sheffield by Dr Helen Crimlisk

SNOMED CT in Mental Health by Denise Downs

Democratising Data for Patient Care by Mark Hayter

From board to floor & floor to Board What Information is at your fingertips to improve care by Dr Geraldine Strathdee

RCPsych Demand and Capacity work by Dr Andy Moore

Lambeth – a Live example of applying information to improving population health by Edward Davie

Whole System Integrated Care Mental Health Dashboard by Priya Ramanah

Delivering preconception care to women of childbearing age with serious mental illness

This guide for health professionals in primary and secondary care will be of particular relevance to general adult psychiatrists working with women with SMI of childbearing age. It provides the latest evidence to support health care professionals during routine appointments to promote awareness of physical and mental health issues which can contribute to healthy pregnancies and allow women to feel supported and empowered to make reproductive choices, whether or not they are planning a pregnancy.