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We are delighted to invite you to "the key to appropriate prescribing in antidepressants" meeting chaired by David Taylor at the Ramside Hall Hotel, Durham on 17th November 2009.

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12.15

Lunch,registration and coffee

13.00

Chairman's Welcome

Professor David Taylor, Chief Pharmacist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

13.15

GP perspective in the management of depression

Dr Chris Manning, Founder Primhe (Primary care mental health and education); Director Upstream Healthcare Ltd

13.40

Clinical data update (including Cipriani)

Professor David Taylor, Chief Pharmacist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

14.05

Interactive Q & A for previous speakers

14.25

Afternoon tea

14.45

Polypharmacy in the treatment of depression: Foolhardy prescribing or wise psychopharmacology?

Dr Hamish McAllister-Williams, Reader in Clinical Psychopharmacology, Psychobiology Research Group, School of Neurology, Neurobiology and Psychiatry, University of Newcastle, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust

15.05

Guidelines: help or hindrance?

Mr Stephen Bleakley, Locality Lead Pharmacist (Psychiatry), Royal South Hants Hospital

15.30

Management of the suicidal patient

Dr Lars Hansen, Consultant Psychiatrist, Hampshire Partnership Trust

15.55

Interactive Q & A for previous speakers

16.15

Closing remarks and summary

Professor David Taylor, Chief Pharmacist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

16.30

Depart