Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust One of the partners working with NHS Improving Quality Who we are, what are our current issues and what do we want to achieve? Presentation from the Winterbourne Medicines Programme Launch held in London on 10 September 2014 Ensuring safe, appropriate and optimised use of medication for people with learning disabilities who demonstrate behaviour that can challenge

1. Winterbourne Medicines
Programme- Sep 10th 14
Dr. Vikram Palanisamy
Consultant Psychiatrist and Specialty Clinical Director
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

3. Current Issues
• Service Redesign
- Lead Nurses for Challenging Behaviour
• Pathway model
– 4 pathways
– Quality standards
• Early stages of Implementation of pathways

4. What do we want to achieve?
- Benchmark current practice
- Meet quality standards specified in CB pathway
- To prevent inappropriate use of medication to manage
people with challenging behaviour.