Groupwork Feedback

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Groupwork Feedback

• Top 5 Priorities
• Quick Actions
• Longer Term Issues/Actions

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Top 5 Priorities

• Primary care mental health team development
  needed as soon as possible. Creating support and
  generating alternatives
• Limiting / reducing the prescribing of
  benzodiazepines
• Use of PCT special measures- tackling
  individual practices to get greater consistency
• Education
• Public education
• Medical education- GPs and Consultants, not
  forgetting acute hospitals
• Broader clinical awareness across teams such as
  District Nurses
• Improving links e.g. with schools and other
  agencies
• Culture change needed
• Expertise and data- needs coordinating

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Quick Actions

• Night sedation policy across Cumbria
• Access to non drug strategies
• Incentivising reduction in prescriptions- ?QOF
• No new automatic repeat prescriptions
• Patient information leaflet-Cumbria wide
• Dissemination prescription information by
  practice
• Cumbria wide policy and prescribing guidelines
• Share best practice e.g. Mary port and St Pauls.
• Simple interventions-e.g. letters, flashcards
• Making use of data- better use and spread
• Community pharmacists, use their intelligence
• Think twice or dont, if you must make it
  limited, beyond that strict review-simple
  messages