In this Healthed lecture, psychiatrist and Director of the Professorial Psychiatry Unit, University of Melbourne, Albert Road Clinic, Prof Malcolm Hopwood, explains that as there is a wide and increasing range of antipsychotic agents, the choices made need to be integrated into a shared-care model. Conveying an understanding of side effects is very important. Management pathways will involve a range of expertise with the GP having a crucial role in diagnosis and follow up.

<p>In this Healthed lecture, psychiatrist and Director of the Professorial Psychiatry Unit, University of Melbourne, Albert Road Clinic, Prof Malcolm Hopwood, explains that as there is a wide and increasing range of antipsychotic agents, the choices made need to be integrated into a shared-care model. Conveying an understanding of side effects is very important. Management pathways will involve a range of expertise with the GP having a crucial role in diagnosis and follow up.</p>

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