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Regulatory policies on medicines for psychiatric disorders: is Europe on target?
- Authors:
- BARBUI Corrado, GARATTINI Silvio
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 190(2), February 2007, pp.91-93.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) is the regulatory body that provides the institutions of the European Community with the best possible scientific advice on the quality, safety and efficacy of medicinal products. Drugs approved by the EMEA are automatically marketable in all the European member states. Since the beginning of the EMEA’s activities a number of drugs acting on the central nervous system obtained marketing authorisation. This paper highlights some aspects of the EMEA rules that may negatively affect the evaluation of medicines for psychiatric disorders.
Experts by experience - and profession
- Author:
- BAKER Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 103, May 2000, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Describes the challenging new research and practice initiatives on voice-hearing developing across Europe.
Repatriating psychiatric patients
- Authors:
- GREEN Lucinda, NAYANI Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 24(11), November 2000, pp.405-408.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
In a psychiatric intensive care unit in central London 17 percent of consecutive admissions between 1 October 1997 and 1 October 1998 were foreign nationals from European Union (EU) countries. This paper discusses the experience of arranging repatriation and some of the relevant legal, ethical and clinical issues involved and reports the results of contacting all the EU embassies regarding the process of repatriating psychiatric patients to their respective countries.
Women in European therapeutic communities: conclusions of the BIOMED project
- Authors:
- de WILDE Joke, TRULSSON Karin
- Journal article citation:
- Therapeutic Communities: the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 27(1), Spring 2006, pp.123-146.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The first part of this article reports on the activities and findings of the BIOMED II 'Improving Psychiatric Treatment in Residential Programmes for Emerging Dependency Groups through Relapse Prevention' (IPTRP). The multi-site research involved treatment centres from nine countries (Norway, Sweden, Belgium, France, Germany, Scotland, Spain, Italy and Greece) over Northern, Central and Southern Europe. The major aim was to identify and address the needs of 'emerging dependency groups'. A further development of the BIOMED project allowed the study of the special needs of substance-abusing women. The authors discuss the findings of both BIOMED studies and their implications for the organisation of therapeutic communities treatment.
Weighting for justice
- Author:
- CLEMENTS Luke
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(7), March 1999, pp.224-225.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Looks at how the Human Rights Act could throw out of court much current UK legislation on mental health and learning disabilities.
Continental rift
- Authors:
- BRANDON David, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(2), October 1998, pp.48-50.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Reports on the results of a survey conducted by the UK based Breakthrough journal on what the words 'mental illness' mean to the public in Europe.
Out of the darkness
- Authors:
- KEUKENS Rob, PERNIS Hans van
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 25.2.98, 1998, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Mental health care in many east European countries is still stuck in the dark ages. Looks at what it would take to reform it.
Comparative mental health policy: from institutional to community care
- Author:
- GOODWIN Simon
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 183p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Comparative analysis of mental health policy in Western Europe and North America. Considers how, and why, differences have developed in the implementation of these policies. Examines the transition from institutional to community based models of care; identifies variations in the inception, pace and style in which community based service provision has emerged in different countries; assesses the problems and issues that have arisen as a result of the shift towards community care and treatment; and argues that it is a policy made up of conflicting aims and purposes and that this is reflected in its implementation.
Caring for mentally ill people in Europe
- Authors:
- VAN OS Jan, NEELEMAN Jan
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 5.11.94, 1994, pp.1218-1221.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Despite legislation to harmonise mental health practice throughout Europe and convergence in systems of training there remains an extraordinary diversity of psychiatric practice in Europe. Approaches to tackling substance misuse vary among nations; statistics on psychiatric morbidity are affected by different approaches to diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders; attitudes towards mental illness show definite international differences. Everywhere, though, mental health care for patients with psychotic illness is a "cinderella service", and there is a general move towards care falling increasingly on the family and the community.