Latest POMH news
Here you can view the latest project updates from the Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health (POMH).
A webinar on 30 April 2025 will provide an update for POMH members on 'the quality of valproate prescribing in adult mental health services' QI programme.
Places are available to all within the POMH member network – if you have not received your invite already, please contact the team: POMH-UK@rcpsych.ac.uk.
Online data entry for the POMH QI programme 18c: The use of clozapine is now open.
Data can be submitted online to POMH from 3 March – 30 April 2025
To submit data, please go to the POMH data entry web page for instructions on how to enter data: POMH submit your data page.
If you would like further information about this, please contact POMH-UK@rcpsych.ac.uk.
We are pleased to let you know that your Trust’s slide-set on the POMH Quality Improvement Programme 21b: The use of melatonin, is now available in the POMH Members’ Area.
We are pleased to let you know that your Trust’s report on the POMH Quality Improvement Programme 21b: The use of melatonin, is now available in the POMH Members’ Area.
A webinar on the 15 January 2025 will provide an update for POMH members on the use of clozapine QI programme. Places are available to all within the POMH member network – if you have not received your invite already, please contact the team: POMH-UK@rcpsych.ac.uk
We are pleased to let you know that your Trust’s report on the POMH Quality Improvement Programme 16c: Rapid tranquillisation in the context of the pharmacological management of acutely-disturbed behaviour, is now available in the POMH Members’ Area.
We are pleased to announce the recent publication of a POMH paper reporting on findings from our recent audit on the monitoring of patients prescribed lithium, in 2023.
The paper has been published in the Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology.
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Links to the paper can be found on the POMH resources page, along with all other published and public material.
We are pleased to announce the recent publication of a POMH paper reporting on findings from our recent audit on the use of medicines with anticholinergic (antimuscarinic) properties in older people's mental health services, in 2024.
The paper has been published in the BJPsych Open.
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Links to the paper can be found on the POMH resources page, along with all other published and public material.