Psychiatric Pharmacy Conference 1993

Wednesday 29th September to Friday 1st October York University

Wednesday 29th September
Chairman: Profesor Brian Veitch, Chief Pharmaceutical Adviser, Welsh Office
Theme: Behavioural disorders

Animal models of behaviour - Dr Peter Redfern, Bath University
Acute management of behavioural emergencies - Prof. Malcolm Lader, Institute of Psychiatry
Chronic behaviour disorders and their treatment - Dr. Roger Banks, Sheffield

Evening visit to Jorvik Viking visitors centre

Thursday 30th September

Morning session
Oral presentations by pharmacists
Community Care - Dr Louis Appleby, Manchester
Mortality and lithium - Dr. Robert Kehoe, Edinburgh
Afternoon:
AGM of UKPPG
Workshops:
  • Mental Health Act
  • Drug Utilisation Review
  • Patient Counselling
  • Local/Regional tutoss clinical assessment
  • Medical statistics
  • Getting started in research
  • Working with GPs
  • Working with local authorities
  • Information and literature evaluation in mental health
  • Audit in mental health
Conference reception, dinner and disco


Pre-dinner reception, with Rob Holmes evident.


Lynn Haygarth with Geoff Hall.


Celia Feetam chats to Miriam Wilshire, Krystyna Koc (Brentwood) and Virginia Jervis (London).


Valerie Dixon (Norwich, first technician to attend the conference) chats with John Hunter (Norwich). Alan Pollard (Nottingham), Anthony Oxley (Leicester) and others make up the table.

Friday 1st October

ECT - an outdated treatment? Katie Malcolm, Sheffield
Precribing policies in drug abuse:
  • The case for - Dr Duncan Raistrick, Leeds Addiction Unit
  • The case against - Dr Dafydd Jones, North Wales Hospital

Photographs by Stephen Bazire, but if you've got any better ones, please let us know.