Stopping Over-Medication of People with Learning Disabilities

"The goal is to improve the quality of life of people with a learning disability by reducing the potential harm of inappropriate psychotropic drugs that may be used wholly inappropriately, as a “chemical restraint” to control challenging behaviour, in place of other more appropriate treatment options. It is time for action, it is time for you to lead a medication review of all people with a learning disability, with a view to implementing a planned supervised dose reduction and stopping of inappropriate psychotropic drugs"

Stopping Over-Medication of People with Learning Disabilities (toolkit): Reducing inappropriate psychotropic drugs in people with a learning disability in general practice and hospitals in 2016
NHS England
June 2016

Access the toolkit here.