A One Day Conference organised by the UK Critical Psychiatry Network. University of Nottingham, 16 April 2015 Following successful one day conferences in 2013 and 2014, and continuing concerns about the nature, provenance and consequences of contemporary psychiatric practice, the UK Critical Psychiatry Network has organised a further opportunity for psychiatrists to consider how their
Since the 1st January 2015 drug companies in the United Kingdom have begun recording any payments they make to doctors for a range of services such as lectures or chairing meetings. The first 12 months of data will be made public in July 2016. This follows a new disclosure code agreed by the European Federation
Personal consequences of the diagnosis of schizophrenia: A preliminary report from the inquiry into the schizophrenia label. 2014. Philip Thomas, Patience Seebohm, Jan Wallcraft, Jayasree Kalathil and Suman Fernando Survey to describe the impact of the diagnosis of schizophrenia on the lives of people who receive the diagnosis Personal consequences of the diagnosis of schizophrenia
Stop Making Sense: Alienation and Mental Health. Peadar O’Grady Stop Making Sense final
The BMJ has been told that Committees of NICE are being encouraged to be more favourable to the drug and device industries. BMJ 2014: 349:g6387
Psychosis and schizophrenia in adults: quality standard consultation The draft NICE quality standard for psychosis and schizophrenia in adults was available for consultation. The consultation period ended at 5pm on Monday 6 October 2014. NICE Quality Standard consultation NICE SCP Comments
Towards a hermeneutic shift in psychiatry
Freedom is more important than health’: Thomas Szasz and the problem of paternalism. Freedom&Health