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The run chart is a powerful visual tool that can be used to guide quality improvement initiatives in healthcare. Providing a method that enables te...

Patient safety should be at the forefront of everything we do when we deliver any care or treatment: ‘First do no harm.’ Since the 1990s the patien...

Last updated by Deepa Krishnan and Kabir Garg Organisations affect our whole lives – from infancy to retirement – and much of our work in the healt...

Clinical audit is a simple and effective mechanism for assuring ourselves about quality of care. It has been practised since the middle of the 19th...

This is a substantial revision of a previous module by Dr Michael Holland, Emily Doncaster and Sophie Hodge. The authors acknowledge their contribu...

This module accompanies the preceding module, Psychosocial management of self-harm: Part 1 , in which the evidence for interventions to reduce the ...

Self-harm is a term used to span a spectrum of suicidal and non-suicidal behaviour, with a range of underlying motivations (Skegg, 2005). It is rel...

The skin is the largest organ of the body covering a surface area of 1.5 to 2 square metres in the average adult. It plays a vital role in the inte...

In this module, we provide a framework for guiding rehabilitation assessment. We also emphasise the importance of considering risk and other challe...

A psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) is a hospital ward dedicated to the short-term management of people in an acutely disturbed phase of a ser...

‘I have lost two or three infants, not without regret, but with no great sorrow’ (Montaigne, 1685). Four centuries on, Montaigne’s comment seems sh...

Homicide is the killing of one human being by another. A disproportionate number of perpetrators have had contact with mental health services or re...

How do you want to die? Providing good quality end-of-life care is what we would want for ourselves, our loved ones and our patients. Good psycholo...

Dizziness is a common complaint and one that is mysterious for the patient and hard to communicate to the doctor. Persistent dizziness has been ter...

What are psychedelic drugs? Are they simply drugs of abuse? Can they be used to treat patients with unremitting mental health problems? Can they as...

This second module follows on from the approaches to managing poor performance set out in the first module: Problem psychiatrists: Part 1 – introdu...

Understanding and dealing with poor performance in doctors is something now expected of all doctors. The GMC’s publications Raising and acting on c...

In the first module of this two-part series, Probity in professional practice: Part 1 , we explored how harm can be prevented in the relationships ...

This module, the first in a two-part series, contains guidance on how harm to patients and psychiatrists can be prevented. The harm can be psycholo...

As a prison psychiatrist, you play a key role in the assessment and management of prisoners with a range of diagnoses. This experience can be a sat...