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Northumberland Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trus Project team: Dr D Patil, Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr D Conway, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, C Thomas, Lead Pharmacist, K Bell, Nurse Behaviour Therapist, Dr G Boynton, Speciality Doctor, Gail Kay, Directorate Manager, Tim Docking, Group Director, Tony Quinn, Service Manager One of the largest Learning Disability and Mental Health Trusts in the country Has a number of locality community LD teams • Multi-disciplinary Co-located teams Good stakeholder engagement with neighbouring Trusts, CCGs, Social care and Voluntary Sector Good service user and carer engagement Good research links

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Northumberland Tyne and Wear Foundation Trust - who we are, what are our current issues and what do we want to achieve? Presentation from the Winterbourne Medicines Programme Launch held in London on 10 September 2014 Ensuring safe, appropriate and optimised use of medication for people with learning disabilities who demonstrate behaviour that can challenge One of the project sites that will be working in partnership with NHS Improving Quality to work on the Winterbourne Medicines Programme

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Northumberland Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust

Project team: Dr D Patil, Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr D Conway, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, C Thomas, Lead Pharmacist, K Bell, Nurse Behaviour Therapist, Dr G Boynton, Speciality Doctor, Gail Kay, Directorate Manager, Tim Docking, Group Director, Tony Quinn, Service Manager

• One of the largest Learning Disability and Mental Health Trusts in the country

• Has a number of locality community LD teams

• Multi-disciplinary• Co-located teams• Good stakeholder engagement with

neighbouring Trusts, CCGs, Social care and Voluntary Sector

• Good service user and carer engagement • Good research links

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What are the issues? High rates of prescribing psychotropic medication for people with LD and behaviours that challenge No standardised pathway for prescribing

anti-psychotics, mood stabilisers, anti-depressants andbenzodiazepines for LD and behaviours that challenge No standardised guidance for the integration of pharmacological and non pharmacological approaches Mixed views and experience of medication use by service users and carers

At least it feels like somebody is doing something

Can you not just give him something?

I got my son back

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What we want to do To gather baseline data on number of adults with CB

on anti-psychotics, mood stabilisers anti-depressants and benzodiazepines

Development of standardised pathway for prescribing

Integration with and development of non pharmacological pathways (e.g. Positive Behaviour Support pathway for CB)

Develop way of measuring clinical outcomes and audit pathway

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