Hospital Pharmacist
Vol 12 No 5 p165
May 2005

News summary

Mental health joins collaborative

Mental health trusts are among the 25 project teams to be included in the third wave of the hospital medicines management collaborative. The National Prescribing Centre announced the trusts that will join 20 acute trusts involved in the first two waves of the collaborative. The National Prescribing Centre has also worked with 146 primary care trusts in the collaborative programme.

Commenting on the inclusion of mental health trusts, Richard Seal, director of medicines management, National Prescribing Centre said, “although their perspective is sometimes different, they share many of the same medicines management improvement issues.”

A list of the successful sites can be viewed here