This website is provided for you by Choice and Medication (C&M). Read more about the site authors.

The website is the result of a multi-sector partnership project involving a range of organisations and key people within them listed below:

Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Hellesdon Hospital, Drayton High Road, Norwich NR6 5BE
Main reception tel: 01603-421421
Main reception fax: 01603-421440
Email: info@nwmhp.nhs.uk
Web: www.nmhct.nhs.uk
With special thanks to Stephen Bazire, Chief Pharmacist, Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Pharmacy

 

College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP)
Web: www.cmhp.org.uk
President: Stephen Guy
Vice President: Dr Denise Taylor

 

 

In the early days of this project, help was received from:

• The National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE, 2002-2009) which has now become part of the National Mental Health Development Unit (NMHDU). With special thanks to Ian McPherson, former Director NIMHE and now Director NMHDU.

• The United Kingdom Psychiatric Pharmacy Group (UKPPG)
  Web: www.ukppg.org.uk
  The UKPPG merged with the College of Mental Health Pharmacists in 2009 to form the College of Mental Health Pharmacy.

• PSI, who made a one-off unrestricted grant to NIMHE in 2008 to support the process.

 

We have also consulted with many bodies including:

• The Royal College of Psychiatrists
  Address: 17 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PG.
  Tel: 020 7235 2351
  Fax: 020 7245 1231
  Email: rcpsych@rcpsych.ac.uk
  Web: www.rcpsych.ac.uk

• The British Association for Psychopharmacology
  Address: 36 Cambridge Place, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1NS, UK
  Tel: 01223 358 395
  Executive Officer: Mrs Susan Chandler (susan@bap.org.uk)
  Web: www.bap.org.uk
  

 

Information sources

The bulk of information related directly to medications is provided by the pharmacy deprtment based at Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (www.nmhct.nhs.uk). We are indebted to the work of Stephen Bazire, Pharmacy Services Director, in gathering and authoring this information.

Information on medication here is based on published data. Sources include:

• the UK British National Formulary (BNF, published by the British Medical Association and Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain)

• Martindale (the extra pharmacopoea, published by RPSGB Pharmaceutical Press)

• Psychotropic Drug Directory (latest edition)

• Data Sheet Compendium (UK Manufacturers Data Sheets, published by the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry)

• MicroMedex (an independent and extensive CD-ROM based drug information source)

• UK Psychiatric Pharmacy Group leaflets, and

• Royal College of Psychiatrists advice and guidelines and the current medical literature.