Physical Health In Severe Mental Illness: The Role of Pharmacy
13 May 2022
Strategy and Policy

Understand
- the disparities and inequalities that exist for cardiometabolic risk, metabolic syndrome, and related diseases e.g., diabetes for patients with severe mental illness
- the impact that those disparities and inequalities have for morbidity and mortality for patients with severe mental illness
- medicines optimisation issues that are relevant and important to the above
- the role of pharmacy from a clinical practice and research perspective
Learning outcomes:
Increased knowledge and understanding of
- the disparities and inequalities that exists for cardiometabolic risk, metabolic syndrome and related diseases e.g., diabetes for patients with severe mental illness
- specific medicines optimisation issues that occur as a result of the above
- the role of pharmacy in the above
- specific activities that could be made to clinical practice and research to contribute to improved care in this area