Quality standard
Update information
Update information
Minor changes since publication
August 2024: Changes have been made to some source guidance and guideline recommendation numbers to align with updated NICE guidelines on mental health. The guidelines were simplified by removing recommendations on general principles of care that are covered in other NICE guidelines.
February 2022: The definitions of baseline physical health investigations and monitoring for side effects of antipsychotic medication in statement 6 were amended to be clear that either fasting blood glucose or glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) can be used to assess for diabetes, in line with NICE's 2021 exceptional surveillance of testing for diabetes.
March 2016: The Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health (POMH-UK) was included as a data source for quality measures in statement 6.