Prescribing in the Pandemic

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust and The Mental Elf invite you to ‘Prescribing in the Pandemic’, a free livestreamed event on Tuesday 2

February 2021 from 11am – 12:30pm. 

The event will feature talks and Q&As on prescribing in young people (Dr Mark Lovell), learning disabilities (Christine Hutchinson) and antidepressants (Dr Mark Horowitz). Participants will be able to ask questions to the speaker panel through a chat facility on YouTube as well as on social media using the hashtag #PrescribingPandemic @CombinedNHS and @Mental_Elf

Speaker profiles

Dr Mark Lovell 

Dr Mark Lovell is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Intellectual Disability Psychiatrist, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. He is an ACAMH Board Member and the Lead for CPD and Training. @dr_marklovell 

Christine Hutchinson 

Christine Hutchinson is a Consultant Nurse – Approved Clinician with the Community Learning Disability Services at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust. She is also an Independent Consultant and Expert Witness. @ChrisHutchRNLD 

Dr Mark Horowitz 

Dr Mark Horowitz is a training psychiatrist and clinical research fellow at University College London. He has an interest in rational prescribing in psychiatry, including de-prescribing – when and how to stop medications. @markhoro