Useful Tools

• Prescribing Newsletter (pdf)
• NMP Newsletter (pdf)

• Choice and Medication - Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
• Choice and Medication - Improving Patient Experience: Mental Health Medicines Briefing for Users (pdf)

• SCRIPT
• SCRIPT - Pharmacy
• Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (pdf)
• BPRS Expanded Version (pdf)
• Lunsars Scoring Tool (.xls)
• Handy Charts (pdf)
• Guidance on the Use of Zuclopenthixol Acetate (Clopixol Acuphase) (pdf)
• Royal College of Psychiatrists CPD Online - How patient-centred are you? Shared decision-making in psychiatric practice

• Antipsychotics in Dementia: Review (pdf)

• nicorette patch: A Guide for Users (pdf)
• What you should know about nicorette 2mg Gum (pdf)
• NiQuitin Lozenges (pdf)

• Valproate use by women and girls - GOV.UK
• Patient Guide: What women and girls need to know about valproate (pdf)
• Information on the risks of Valproate use in girls (of any age) and women of childbearing potential (pdf)
• Annual Risk Acknowledgement Form: Valproate has risks in pregnancy (pdf)

A Patient Group Direction is a written instruction for the supply or administration of a medicine to a group of patients, who may not be individually identified before presentation for treatment, by a health professional who is not able to independently prescribe this medicine.

Patient Group Directions are not able to cover health professionals supplying/administering medicines to individual patients prior to a prescription being written, nor do they allow health professionals to re-authorise repeat prescriptions.

• Development Use of Patient Group Directions SOP (pdf)