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Factsheets
These are short quick and easy reference factsheets for primary care
Primary Care Guidance: Management of depression in older people
(Feb 2011)
Primary Care Guidance: Treating depression in people with Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)
(Jan 2011)
Guidance for health professionals on medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)
(Jan 2011)
Primary Care Guidance on Smoking and Mental Health
(Dec 2008)
GP Guidance: Monitoring of patients prescribed Lithium
(March 2010)
Pharmacy Guidance on Smoking and Mental Health
(Feb 2010)
Primary Care Guidance on Debt and Mental Health
(July 2009)
Early Intervention in Psychosis - Guidance on early detection and referral by GPs
(2009)
Primary Care Guidance: early Intervention in psychosis - Keeping the body in mind
(July 2009)
RCGP and Age Concern's Take the Challenge!
( a short interactive program to help the diagnosis and treatment of depression in older people in primary care)
Suicide Mitigation in Primary Care
(Jan 2012)
Feeling on the edge? Helping you get through it (
English
) (
Welsh
)
Longer Guidance
Guide to Providing Mental Health Care Support to Asylum Seekers in Primary Care
( January 2009)
Young people with mental health problems: A toolkit for school nurses, primary care and community professionals
(2009)
Charlie Waller Memorial Trust Toolkit - The Mental Health Consultation (With a Young Person)
Improving Physical & Mental Health
Joint Reports and Consensus Statements
Position Statement on Smoking and Mental Health (July 2008)
Management of patients with physical and psychological problems in primary care
– Joint report (December 2008)
A Collective Responsibility to Act Now on Ageing and Mental Health: A Consensus Statement
(June 2008)
Age discrimination in mental health services: making equality a reality
(2009)
Joint report on Psychological Therapies - RCPsych / RCGP
(June 2008)
Joint statement on Anti-depressant prescribing
(2009)
Other Publications
Mental Health and Social Inclusion Position Statement
Primary Care Mental Health
- Edited by Linda Gask, Helen Lester, Tony Kendrick and Robert Peveler
RCGP Symposium on Young Peoples' Mental Health
Video
Understanding early psychosis
Carolyn Chew-Graham interview on Mental Health in Primary Care Forum
Useful Contacts
Huntingdon's Disease Association