The Dementia Commissioning Pack (Department of Health, 2011) included a set of accompanying resources to support the reduction of inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotics.

Assuring quality and safety

• Birmingham City Council, Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust, NHS Birmingham, NHS Birmingham East and North (2010) Self-assessment for Care Homes with Nursing
• Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (2010) Local CQUIN schemes Coventry and Warwickshire 2010/2011
• Healthcare for London, NHS Commissioning Support for London (2009) Regional CQUIN scheme for London 2010/2011
• NHS Sandwell (2010) Service Specification for Care Homes with Nursing Review Team
• NHS Telford and Wrekin (2010) Job description – Clinical Nurse Advisor Independent Sector
• NHS West Midlands (2010) Regional CQUIN schemes West Midlands 2010/2011
• Worcestershire County Council (2010) Worcestershire Residential Dementia Service Standard

Decision support tools

• Keele University (2010) Challenging behaviour record sheet
• NHS Walsall (2010) Challenging behaviour record sheet
• Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust (2010) Antipsychotic initiation and review clinician decision support tool
• Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust (2010) Common ICD10 Diagnoses

Needs assessment

• Healthcare for London, NHS Commissioning Support for London (2009) Dementia needs assessment – London
• Keele University (2009) West Midlands Antipsychotic prescribing regional dataset
  Prescribing guidelines
• Alzheimer’s Society and the Department of Health (2011) Optimising treatment and care for people with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. A best practice guide for health and social care professionals. London, Alzheimer’s Society.
• Dementia Action Alliance and NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (2011) The Right Prescription: a call to action on the use of antipsychotic drugs for people with dementia. London, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
• Dementia Action Alliance and NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (2011) The Right Prescription: a call to action on the use of antipsychotic drugs for people with dementia. Commitment for commissioners in heath, social care and GP commissioning. London, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
• Department of Health (2010) Letter from David Nicholson to SHA Chief Executives Implementation of the National Dementia Strategy: local delivery and local accountability
• Department of Health (2009) Government response to Professor Sube Banerjee’s report on the prescribing of anti-psychotic drugs to people with dementia
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2009) NICE technology appraisal TA111 Donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine (review) and memantine for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (2006) NICE clinical guideline 42 Dementia: Supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social care
• Professor Sube Banerjee, The Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London (2009) The use of antipsychotic medication for people with dementia: Time for action

Prescribing support materials

• Keele University (2010) Keele University Prescribing Guidance for Clinicians
• NHS Hampshire (2010) Medicines management and improving antipsychotic prescribing in Hampshire
• NHS Isle of Wight (2010) Good Prescribing in Dementia
• NHS Isle of Wight (2010) Managing Behavioural Problems in Patients with Dementia
• NHS Norfolk, Norfolk County Council, Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (2010) Management of medicines used for agitation (psychotropics) prescribed for discretionary administration by care home staff (PRN) – Self assessment tool
• NHS Norfolk (2010) Reducing psychotropic prescribing in care homes
• NHS Norfolk (2010) Psychotropic Medicine Management for People in Care Homes with Dementia
• NHS Stoke (2010) Guidelines on Antipsychotic use
• NHS South West Essex (2010) NHS South West Essex project on polypharmacy for people with dementia
• NHS Walsall (2010) Guidelines for Antipsychotic use and withdrawal
• Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (2010) Trust Prescribing Guidance – Managing Behavioural Problems in Patients with Dementia

Undertaking audits

• Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (2011) Antipsychotic medication prescribing audit tool
  Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust (2009) Antipsychotics in Dementia Audit Tool for Secondary Care
• NHS Bedfordshire (2010) Clinical criteria for dementia audit: use of medication for non-cognitive symptoms, behaviour that challenges and behaviour control
• NHS East of England (2010) Patient data collection tool for Dementia: The use of medication for non-cognitive symptoms, behaviour that challenges and behaviour control
• NHS Hampshire (2010) Audit of antipsychotic therapy in dementia patients in NHS Hampshire
• NHS Lambeth (2011) Antipsychotic medication prescribing protocol audit tool and Tool
  NHS London (2011) London GP Practice Audit of Antipsychotic Prescribing to People with Dementia
  NHS Medway (2010) Low dose antipsychotic audit
• NHS Sutton and Merton (2011) Primary care prescribing audit tool – Sutton and Merton
• NHS Telford and Wrekin (2009) Dementia and behaviour that challenges (NICE CG 42 & TAG111) Audit tool – antipsychotics always a last resort
• NHS Walsall (2009) Audit on the use of antipsychotics in people with dementia
• North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust (2010) Antipsychotics in dementia prescribing review