Psychiatric Pharmacy Conference 2000

Friday 6th to Sunday 8th October 2000 Wokefield Conference Centre, Berkshire

Friday 6th October 2000

Afternoon session - Theme Dual Diagnosis and Co-morbidity
Chairman Dr Geraldine Strathdee, Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxleas Trust

What is dual diagnosis? - Dr. Daphne Rumball, Consultant Psychiatrist, Norwich
Substance Abuse and mental illness - Dr. Nick Seivewright, Consultant Psychiatrist, Sheffield
Physical illness and mental illness - Dr. Mavis Evans, Consultant Psychiatrist, Liverpool
Learning disabilities and mental illness - Dr. Gillian Doody, Senior lecturer, Nottingham

Dr. Geraldine Strathdee	Dr. Daphne Rumball	Dr. Nick Seivewright
Dr. Mavis Evans	Dr. Gillian Doody

Friday evening:

19.30pm AGM, including the College of Mental Health Pharmacists

Chairman Stephen Bazire and Secretary Alan Pollard at the AGM.

Saturday 9th October

Morning session

Chairman: Christine Glover, President, RPSGB
Oral presentations of research by pharmacists:
Celia Feetam, Shibhra Mace, Shameem Mir and Dave Branford
AstraZeneca Travel Award 2000 - Diane Harris (Derby)
Bayer Old Age Psychiatry Award lecture - Medication Education in Old Age Psychiatry, Helen Tennant, Pharmacy Services Manager, Norfolk Mental Health Care NHS Trust
Brett Hill Memorial lecture - Cliff Prior, Chief Executive, NSF (National Schizophrenia Fellowship)

Celia Feetam	Shameem Mir	Dr. Dave Branford
Shibhra Mace	Christine Glover	Cliff Prior
Helen Tennant	Diane Harris

Afternoon Workshops (2.15-3.45, 4.15-5.45):

Drug therapy in pregnant women with psychiatric disorders (Pat McElhatton)
Running a group medication education programme (Ian Maidment)
Evidence based medicine and Cochrane Collaboration (Clive Adams)
Rating scales with antipsychotics (Jennie Day)
Clinical Governance (Carol Paton)
Medicine Codes (Dave Branford)
Patient confidentiality and pharmacist liability - will I be sued? (Sue Sharpe, RPSGB)
Implementing Protocols (Alan Pollard/Graham Parton)
Pharmaceutical Care Planning (Joy Nicholson)
Voluntary Organisations (Alison Cobb, MIND)
Lithium clinics (Janine Acomb)
Mentorship (Peter Pratt) - did not run
Where is pharmacy automation ending? (Walter Broekema)

Evening Reception and Conference Dinner:

Katie Sims (second right) taking a break from writing the conference up for the PJ, with Wendy Davies (second from left).

Jennie Day and Sue Hunter looking well oiled.

Rob Holmes, Val Shaw and Sue Coaker

That rowdy Norwich lot: Louise Hamer, Carol Smith, Andy Nunney, Ian Maidment (ex-Norwich), Helen Tennant, Alex Williams, Val Dixon, John Hunter, Stephen Bazire and Dawn Brewer

Dr. Hiram Wildgust presented the poster winners with their prizes
With Hiram (left) are Carol Paton, Sarah Beck and Graham Newton. Shibhra Mace was unable to be there.

The organisational "dream-team" of Denny Humphries and Celia Feetam.

The dinner was followed by a barn dance/ceilidh with The Geckoes and then a disco.

Much to several people's surprise, the ceilidh/barn dance with the Geckoes was a roaring success, with people throwing themselves about with wild abandon for an hour and a quarter or so.

Sunday 10th October

Morning worship (led by Alan Pollard)
Mental health issues: Chairman, Marjorie Wallace, Chief Executive, SANE

Factors that influence the prescribing of antidepressant drugs - Peter Pratt (Community Health, Sheffield)
The potential impact of electronic prescribing on psychiatric pharmacy practice - Keith Farrar
(Chief Pharmacist, Wirral NHS Trust)
The potential impact of pharmacy technicians on the ward activities of pharmacists - Jill Turner (Pharmacy Business Manager, Doncaster Royal Infirmary)
Consent to treatment - Dr. David Branford (Southern Derbyshire Mental Health NSH Trust)
Political aspects of antipsychotics - David Taylor (Maudsley Hospital)

Marjorie Wallace	Peter Pratt	Keith Farrar
Jill Turner	Dr. Dave Branford	David Taylor

Photographs by Andrea Nunney, Hellesdon Hospital, Norwich