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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust have launched a tool to improve prescribing for older people. Medichec is an innovative online tool that helps clinicians identify medicines that could cause memory and cognitive problems in older people. Medicines known as anticholinergics are prescribed for a range of conditions including urinary incontinence, pain and depression. […]

I have been working with colleagues at the EPIC (Early Psychosis: Intervention & Clinical-detection) lab at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM), to develop a new psychosis risk calculator which is available online at www.psychosis-risk.net. Psychosis is a mental disorder which causes people to perceive or interpret things differently from those around […]