Psychiatric Pharmacy Conference 2001

Friday 5th to Sunday 7th October 2001 Wokefield Conference Centre, Berkshire

Friday 5th October 2001

Afternoon session - Theme "Beyond Drugs and Dopamine"
Tim Kendall Prof. Peter Woodruff Prof. Robert Kerwin Prof. Clive Adams Prof. Peter Redfern

Friday evening AGM, and College of Mental Health Pharmacists

Chairman Stephen Bazire and retiring Secretary
Alan Pollard at the AGM.
CMHP President David Taylor presenting the first CMHP member Carol Paton with her certificate at the AGM.

Saturday 6th October

Morning session
  • Chairman: Dr Gill Hawksworth, Vice-President, RPSGB
  • Treating Depression: the Good, the Bad and the Pharmacist (Kath Carter)
  • Advantages of "near patient" testing in a pharmacist-nurse led lithium clinic (Pat Morgan)
  • Non-Clinical Factors that Affect the Prescribing of Anti-Psychotics at a Medium Secure Forensic Unit (Lee Knowles)
  • Pharmaceutical Care Services for older people with mental health problems in the community: What is the level of support? (Diane Harris)
  • A pilot study of One-stop dispensing (David Branford, who later kindly donated Derby's One stop dispensing procedures)
  • UKPPG-AstraZeneca Travel Award 2001 - Salwa Morcos (Canterbury), presented by Dr. Chris Link for "A Descriptive study of discrepancies in prescribing between primary and secondary sectors of mental health service provision"
  • Mentorship, Peter Pratt (Sheffield)
  • Brett Hill Memorial lecture - Emma Harding

Salwa Morcos receiving the UKPPG-AstraZeneca Award from Dr. Chris Link (AZ)

Afternoon Workshops:

  • Pharmaceutical Care Planning - Claire Hodgkinson
  • Drugs in pregnancy - Pat McElhatton (Newcastle)
  • Running a group medication education programme - Ian Maidment (Canterbury)
  • Child psychiatry/ADHD (TBC)
  • IT and the Internet - Graham Newton (Liverpool) and Nazmin Karim (London)
  • Voluntary Organisations
  • HIV and psychiatry - Robyn McAskill (Nottingham)
  • College of Mental Health Pharmacists and portfolios - Dr. Dave Branford (Derby) and Peter Pratt (Sheffield)
  • Clinical Supervision - Catherine Fewster (Preston)
  • Evidence-based guidelines - Dr. James Warner (London)

Evening Reception and Conference Dinner:


Miriam Wilcher, Celia Feetam and John Donoghue


Conference secretary Denny Humphries, Diane Booth and Virginia Jervis
with Lord David and Lady Ilfra Goldberg managing to sneek in between Diane and Virginia.

Below: Conference photographer Andrea Nunney and Norwegian delegate Elisabeth Eide.


Celia Feetam receiving the Chairman's Award for Lifetime Achievement from Chairman Stephen Bazire.

Dr. Hiram Wildgust (Lilly) presented the poster winners with their prizes
Pat Morgan (Abergavenney), Petra Brown (Manchester), Lee Knowles (Oldham), Hiram, Claire Hodgkinson (Edinburgh, representing Joy Nicholson, who was unable to be there) and Diane Harris (Derby).

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




Going Dutch at the ceilidh.

Sunday 10th October

Morning worship (led by Alan Pollard)
Mental health issues: Chairman, Chairman - Lord David Goldberg

Controversial theme How do we treat patients?

  • The Carer's and User's view of mental health services - Paul Farmer (Director, NSF, London)
  • Early Interventions - Dr. Mike Launer (Burnley)
  • Child Psychiatry - Prof. Chris Hollis, Dept of Psychiatry, Nottingham
  • Cognitive impairment - Dr. David Healy (Bangor)
  • Human Rights in mental health - Christopher Newdick (Department of Law, Reading University)


David Goldberg


Christopher Newdick


Mike Launer


Paul Farmer
Dr. David Healy
Dr Chris Hollis


Graham Newton advising Lord Goldberg that 7 Down is probably "Nappies".

Conference and organising committee:

  • Celia Feetam - Conference co-ordination and sponsorship
  • Denny Humphries - Administration, advertising, bookings, delegates
  • Graham Parton - Posters, oral presentations, Saturday morning
  • Siobhan Drummond - workshops
  • Diane Booth - Medical Exhibition
  • Alan Pollard - AGM, morning worship
  • Peter Pratt - Friday afternoon
  • Graham Newton and Juliet Shepherd - Sunday morning
  • Andrea Nunney (Norwich) - photographer
  • Katie Sims (Oxford) - write-up for Journals (copy of report in Pharm J 2001, 267, 658-59)