Publications
South West Controlled Drugs Team Publications
Autumn 2021 meetings of the Local Intelligence Network
NHS England & NHS Improvement’s Controlled Drug teams from the South of England and London collaborated to produce a joint educational webinar for our local intelligence networks on 21 September 2020
| Presentation | Speaker | Slides |
| Controlled drugs annual report update 2020 | Victoria Lea
Care Quality Commission |
The recordings and slides are available on request. |
| Medical weight management clinics and their use of controlled drugs | Jane Glazebrook
The Slimming Clinic |
The recordings and slides are available on request. |
| Opioid conversion incident involving pethidine | Julie McCann
NHS England & NHS Improvement |
The recordings and slides are available on request. |
Spring 2021 meetings of the Local Intelligence Network
NHS England & NHS Improvement’s Controlled Drug teams from the South of England and London collaborated to produce a joint educational webinar for our local intelligence networks on 10 March 2021.
| Presentation | Speaker | Slides |
| Introduction to the network | Victoria Lea
Care Quality Commission |
The recordings and slides are available on request. |
| Trends in illicit drug use | Pete Collins
Avon & Somerset Police |
The recordings and slides are available on request. |
| Controlled Drugs Liaison Officer’s update | Wendy McAllister
Metropolitan Police |
The recordings and slides are available on request. |
| Supporting employers with concerns about nurses, midwives and nursing associates | Michele Harrison
Nursing & Midwifery Council |
The recordings and slides are available on request. |
| ‘Mind the Gab’–preventing errors with gabapentinoids | Ann Rhys and Judy Vick
Hospiscare |
The recordings and slides are available on request. |
Autumn 2020 meetings of the Local Intelligence Network
NHS England & NHS Improvement’s Controlled Drug teams from both South East and South West England collaborated to produce a joint educational webinar for our local intelligence networks on 22 September 2020
| Presentation | Speaker | Slides |
| Controlled Drugs Accountable Officer’s national update | William Rial
NHS England & NHS Improvement |
The recordings and slides are available on request. |
| The safer management of Controlled Drugs – Annual Review | Sarah Dennison
Care Quality Commission |
The recordings and slides are available on request. |
| Prescribing opioids and other dependence forming medicines for chronic pain | Amy Lynch
NHS East Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group |
The recordings and slides are available on request. |
| Ambulance service data sharing with local substance misuse services | Jason Kew
Thames Valley Police |
The recordings and slides are available on request. |
| Improving the use of controlled drugs at the end of life in care homes | Sue Carter
NHS West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group |
The recordings and slides are available on request. |
| Management of Controlled Drugs in a Private Hospital | Alex Zarneh
New Foscote Hospital |
The recordings and slides are available on request. |
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Controlled Drugs Newsletters
We share the learning from incidents reported to us and update on relevant topics via our local intelligence networks and via newsletters.
Safe use of controlled drugs newsletter archive
- NHS CD newsletter DCIoS Feb 14
- NHSE CD newsletter BNSSSG Feb 14
- NHSE CD newsletter DCIoS Mar 14
- NHSE CD newsletter BNSSSG Apr 14
- NHSE CD newsletter DCIoS May 14
- NHSE DC newsletter DCIoS May 14 supplement
- NHSE CD newsletter BNSSSG May 14
- NHSE CD newsletter DCIoC Aug 14
- NHSE CD newsletter BNSSSG Aug 14
- NHSE CD newsletter BNSSSG Oct 14
- NHSE CD newsletter DCIoC Nov 14
- NHSE CD newsletter DCIoS Dec 14