PROGRAMME WEDNESDAY 23 MAY 2012
08.30 Exhibition, refreshments and registration
09.20
Opening and welcome from conference chair
Professor André Tylee, head, Section of Primary Care Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
09.30
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Mental health strategy - update and impact
Hugh Griffiths, national clinical director for mental health, Department of Health
09.55 Q&A session
10.00
PANEL DEBATE: What does good, clinically-led commissioning of mental health services look like?
Paul Jenkins, chief executive, Rethink Mental Illness Dr Femi Oyebode, head of the department of psychiatry, University of Birmingham and consultant psychiatrist, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital,
Birmingham Dr David Smart, GP, Northamptonshire and GPSI in mental health, Northamptonshire PCT Lucy Butler, assistant director, integrated learning disabilities and mental health, Hampshire County Council and secretary of ADASS mental health, drugs and
alcohol network Antony Chuter, chair, RCGP patient participation group and patient champion for commissioning, RCGP centre for commissioning
10.50 Exhibition and refreshments
11.20
CONFERENCE TRACKS
Delegates can pick and mix from the following tracks:
Primary Care Clinical Update
Secondary Care Clinical Update
Innovation Commissioning and patient care
Stream Chair Dr David Smart, GP in Northamptonshire
Stream Chair Dr Derek Tracy, consultant psychiatrist, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Stream Chair Kieron Murphy, director of delivery, Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health
Managing medically unexplained symptoms in primary care
Factors leading to the development of medically unexplained symptoms
Treatment options
Professor Trudie Chalder, professor of cognitive behavioural psychotherapy, King's College London
Rethinking management of refractory schizophrenia
Overview of the multi-professional approach taken to refractory psychosis in the UK's National Psychosis Service
Medication options in resistant psychosis, including advice on improving the tolerability of clozapine
Latest pharmacological approaches to resistant psychosis and what options exist when clozapine doesn't work
Dr Fiona Gaughran, lead consultant in the National Psychosis Service and physical health lead for the Psychosis Clinical Academic Group in the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Dementia care: a tale of two trailblazing services
1. The RAID model: psychiatry in acute hospital care in Birmingham
The extent of unmet mental health need in hospitals and its effect on hospital outcome measures
Why dementia in acute hospitals needs to be urgently dealt with to avoid significant pressure on resources and quality
RAID's concept of integration between physical and mental health with rapid response and a proactive approach
How RAID has shown that improving quality can lead to cost savings by reducing length of stay and readmissions
How nurse training in mental health can be effective
Professor George Tadros, Professor of Old Age Liaison Psychiatry, Warwick Medical School. University of Warwick, RAID lead clinician, Birmingham and Solihull mental health foundation trust.
2. Anticipatory care for dementia in South Staffordshire
Case finding: using primary care databases for early detection of dementia
Anticipatory care: what this looks like - community consultant clinics and care plans
Outcomes - the results of this form of care
Dr Ian Greaves, GP, Staffordshire and dementia champion for South Staffordshire
12.00
Successful treatment of anxiety in general practice
Prevalence of anxiety disorders and GP rates of diagnosis and treatment
Nature of anxiety disorders, comorbidity and associated social problems and costs
Recent research/guidance, and pointers for GPs on successful management with reference to NICE guidelines
Dr Marta Buszewicz, part-time GP in north London, and senior lecturer in primary care at University College London
Update on delirium
Prevalence
Outcomes
Management
Professor Emma Reynish, consultant geriatrician and honorary professor of dementia studies, NHS Fife and University of Stirling
A local enhanced service for serious mental illness
Overview of why patients with a diagnosis of serious mental illness are increasingly being discharged to primary care
How primary care and secondary care clinicians worked together to develop an innovative LES
Summary of what the serious mental illness LES has delivered in the first year, and of how we see it developing in the future
Dr Becky Jarvis, joint clinical lead for mental health in Brighton and Hove and a GP in Brighton. Zo Payne, practice development nurse, Recovery Services Brighton & Hove
12.40
Lunch and exhibition
13.40 CONFERENCE TRACKS Delegates can pick and mix from the following tracks:
Primary Care Clinical Update
Secondary Care Clinical Update
Innovation Commissioning and patient care
Pharmacological treatments for depression
Time to response
Suicidality
Treatment of refractory depression
Professor David Taylor, director of pharmacy and pathology at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and head of Pharmaceutical Sciences Clinical Academic Group, King's Health Partners
Session to be confirmed
Innovation in third-sector partnership: working - an overview of three very different services delivered with Rethink Mental Illness
Leicestershire Mental Health Facilitator Service
Dr Terri Eynon, chair of the Leicestershire IAPT Consortium Board
Recovery Point - a community-based recovery project commissioned by Essex PCT
Victoria Kent, service lead
Tina Gowers, service lead
Rosewood Project: supporting individuals in the community with complex needs as an alternative to a hospital secure unit
James Gorman, area manager for Rethink Mental Illness, covering Somerset and Bristol
14.20
Care of people with serious mental illness in general practice
To better understand the health and health needs of people with serious mental health problems
To better understand the role of primary care for people with serious mental health problems
To feel better equipped personally to provide high quality primary care for people with serious mental health problems
Professor Helen Lester, professor of primary care at the University of Birmingham, RCGP mental health commissioning lead and co- chair of the Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health
The diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in adults
Definition of ADHD in adults: rates in primary care and adult mental health services
Effectiveness of pharmacological and psychological interventions in the treatment of ADHD in adults
The importance of recognition and effective management of ADHD in patients with mental health problems in primary and secondary healthcare
Professor Philip Asherson, Professor of Molecular Psychiatry, MRC Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and honorary consultant psychiatrist (Maudsley Adult ADHD Clinic)
Session to be confirmed
15.00
Exhibition and refreshments
Chair of afternoon plenary sessions: Professor Helen Lester, professor of primary care at the University of Birmingham, RCGP mental health
commissioning lead and co-chair of the Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health
15.30
Update on dementia care
Managing behavioural symptoms
New treatments
Update on antipsychotic prescribing
Professor Clive Ballard, director of research at the Alzheimer's Society and Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's
College London
16.00
Q&A session
16.10
Mind and body: tackling common mental health problems in patients with long-term physical conditions
The link between mental ill health and chronic conditions
The benefits of an integrated approach
How IAPT can help in the treatment of long-term conditions
Professor André Tylee, head, Section of Primary Care Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
16.40
Q&A session
16.50
Closing remarks from chair
Professor Helen Lester, professor of primary care at the University of Birmingham, RCGP mental health commissioning lead and co- chair of the Joint
Commissioning Panel for Mental Health
17.00
Conference and exhibition close