Psychiatric Pharmacy Conference 2006

Friday 6th to Sunday 8th October 2006 Wokefield Conference Centre, Berkshire

Major Sponsors (in alphabetical order): AstraZeneca UK Ltd • Bristol-Myers Squibb / Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly & Co Ltd/Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd • Denfleet Pharma Ltd, Shire Pharmaceuticals • Servier Laboratories Ltd

Exhibitors (in alphabetical order): Eisai Ltd, Genthon, Learning Industries, Lundbeck Ltd, MTS - Novartis Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Organon Laboratories Ltd, Rosemont Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Shire Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals

Friday 6th October

Satellite symposium I: LCG “Prospects for a genetic approach to individualised drug treatments in Psychiatry” Robert Kerwin, Professor of Clinical Neuropharmacology, Institute of Psychiatry
Satellite symposium II: Bristol-Myers Squibb/Otsuka Pharmaceuticals “Developing Models of Delivering Psychiatric Care in the Management of Schizophrenia”, Professor Steve Bazire, Norfolk & WaveneyMental Health Partnership NHS Trust and Belinda Garnett, Senior Nurse Practitioner,West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust

Friday afternoon session

CAMHS & Learning Disabilities - Expanding the Boundaries of Practice
Chair: Dr Shirley Gracias, Consultant Psychiatrist, Avon and Wiltshire MHPT

Developments in ADHD - Dr Gordon Bates, Consultant Psychiatrist, Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Substance Misuse and Harm Reduction in Children & Adolescents - Dr Deborah Judge -Avon and Wiltshire MHPT
Therapeutic Update in Learning Difficulties - Dr David Branford - Chief Pharmacist, South Derbyshire MHT
Communication issues in Learning Difficulties - Priscilla Reed, SLT, Lancashire

Dr. Gordon Bates	Dr. Deborah Judge
Dr Dave Branford	Dr Priscilla Reed

Chair Dr Shirley Gracias and Steve Bazire, old colleagues from the 1980s

Friday afternoon satellite symposium III: AstraZeneca UK Ltd “Comparative Effectiveness of Antipsychotics in the Treatment of Schizophrenia” - Professor Tandon, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida

AGM for UKPPG followed by CMHP AGM

Diane Booth and David Taylor

Saturday 7th October

Breakfast symposium meeting IV: Servier Laboratories Ltd “Management of depression - are we getting it right?” Chair John Donoghue. Dr David Taylor, Chief Pharmacist, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust and Professor Tony Hale, Kent Institute of Medicine & Health Sciences

Morning Plenary Session
Developments in Practice
Chair: Jed Boardman, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.

Pharmacist/technician presentations of research work or activities
Getting into bed with the private sector - Wendy Broderick, Chief Pharmacist, CountyDurham and Darlington Priority Services NHS Trust
UKPPG Travel Award - Determining Attitudes to the Prescribing of medicines for Dementia - Denise Taylor, Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath
Non-medical prescribing in practice – Suzanne Robinson, Pharmacy, Royal Glamorgan Hospital
The trials and tribulations of installing a dispensing machine - Getting to Grips with DORIS - Professor Steve Bazire, Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Ciara Hallows	Denise Taylor
Suzanne Robinson	Dr Priscilla Reed

Steve Bazire	Jed Boardman
Wendy Broderick

Afternoon workshops

TDM of antipsychotics - Dr. Bob Flanagan
Getting Started in Research - Dr Jane Sutton
Consent Issues - Dr Brian Robinson
Aston Diploma case studies - Celia Feetam, Justine Raynsford and Stephen Guy
Developing patient group directions (PGDs) in mental health - Ray Lyon & Ros Mitchell
Organising MedEd Sessions - Ian Maidment
A technician-led post-discharge telephone monitoring system - Tracy Biggs-Watson and Bev Faulkner
College of Mental Health Pharmacists (CMHP) how to get accredited - Stuart Gill-Banham & Alistair Tinto
Physical health clinical skills - Rachel Britton & Denise Taylor
Running a Lithium Clinic - Pat Morgan
Self-medication in mental health - Michael Dixon
Supplementary Prescribing - Suzanne Robinson
Harm reduction in drug misuse services/opioid dependence - Anshu Hinton &
Caroline Weaver

Evening
Evening conference dinner
Ceilidh Followed by a disco until 1am.

UKPPG meetings secretary Marina Davidson second from right

Jed Hewitt, Miguel Gomez and Simon Whitfield enjoying the bubbly

An Oxfordshire/Berkshire slant in this crowd

Dinner4

A south coast grouping?

A strong Birmingham contingent here, amongst others

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

But you don't know what Maria Pedrosa, Kirsty Ellis and Louise Hamer are thinking about though!

Conference photographer Andy Nunney in the middle

Pat Morgan, somewhat surprised to be holding the annual outstanding achievement award, having just been awarded it

Maria Macintyre, one of the prize winners, with Graham Parton

Kim Humphries and Lou Hamer enjoying the disco, rather than the ceilidh

Sunday 8th October

Morning Worship led by Alan Pollard

Plenary Session
Current Controversies
Chair: Professor Tony Hale, Kent Institute of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury
The Brett Hill Memorial lecture - Medication, Empowerment and the Person - Mark Harnden, Service User and Advisor in Bipolar Disorder
Advance Directives and Capacity – Philip Fennell, Professor of Law, Cardiff Law School,University of Wales
The NICE Debate: this House believes that NICE Guidance is too evidence based and pays too little attention to clinical experience"
Against the Motion: Steve Pilling, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Co-Director of the
National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
For the Motion: Dr Roger Bullock, Consultant Psychiatrist, Avon and Wiltshire