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The use of antipsychotic medication for people with dementia: Time for action
— a report for the Minister of State for Care Services by Professor Sube Banerjee | | Author(s) | Sube Banerjee |
| Corporate Author | Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London; Department of Health - DH |
| Publisher | Electronic PDF format - Department of Health - DH, November 2009 |
| Pages | 63 pp |
| Source | Download report from: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/... |
| Keywords | Drugs ; Dementia ; Reports. |
| Annotation | The Department of Health (DH) commissioned and funded this independent report, in recognition of widespread concern about the over-prescription of anti-psychotic drugs, and as part of the priority being given to improving care for people with dementia. The report presents findings on the positive and negative effects of antipsychotic medication for people with dementia, and analyses the use of antipsychotic medication in dementia. Recommendations centre around: making a reduction in the use of antipsychotics for people with dementia a clinical governance priority for primary and secondary care; improving the management of dementia in care homes; and improving the management of dementia in people's own households in the community. Reducing the use of antipsychotic drugs for people with dementia and assuring good practice when they are needed should be made a clinical governance priority across the NHS. Indeed, people with dementia should receive antipsychotic medication only when they really need it. There is a need to develop a curriculum for the development of appropriate skills for care home staff in the non-pharmacological treatment of behavioural disorder in dementia, including the deployment of specific therapies with positive impact. The Royal Colleges of General Practitioners, Psychiatrists, Nursing and Physicians should develop a curriculum for the development of appropriate skills for GPs and others working in care homes, which should be available as part of continuing professional development. The Government has issued its response to Professor Banerjee's findings (see weblink http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/... (KJ/RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-091203518 E |
| Classmark | LLD: EA: 6K |
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