These resources are aimed at helping health professionals to understand what medicines might be considered a restrictive practice for the purpose of the NDIS and offer tools and guidelines about how to facilitate the reduction of psychotropic medicines, where appropriate.*
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- NDIS Commission’s Regulated Restrictive Practices Guide - Regulated Restrictive Practices Guide - NDIS Commission
- Working with the treating doctor - Working with the treating doctor - QLD Government
- Restrictive practice in ACT - Restrictive Practice - ACT Government
- Restrictive practice in SA - Restrictive Practice - SA Government
- Restrictive practice in TAS - Restrictive Practice - TAS Government
- Restrictive practice in QLD - Restrictive Practice - QLD Government
- Restrictive practice in NSW - Restrictive Practice - NSW Government
- Restrictive practice in VIC - Restrictive Practice - VIC Government
- Restrictive practice in WA - Restrictive Practice - WA Government
- RACGP Aged care clinical guide – guidance for GPs on the providing care to older people over 65 living in the community or residential care - RACGP Silver Book - The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
- National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards – guide for hospitals - See ‘Manage the use of antipsychotic medicines’ - National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards Guide for Hospitals
- NICE Guidelines: Prevention and interventions for people with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges - Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities - NICE Guidelines
- NSW Therapeutic Advisory Group Deprescribing Guides - Deprescribing tools - NSW Therapeutic Advisory Group
- Primary Health Tasmania Deprescribing Guides - Medication management - Primary Health Tasmania
- Medication Review Guide for GPs – A guide for GPs on the use of psychoactive medications for adults with intellectual disability who present with behaviours of concern - Medication Review Guide - Monash Health
- Responsible psychotropic prescribing to people with an intellectual disability (Podcast) - Responsible Psychotropic Prescribing to People with an Intellectual Disability Podcasts - Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry
- Interactive switching tool for stopping and switching antipsychotic drugs - Antipsychotic switching tool - NPS Medicinewise
- Intellectual Disability Mental Health Core Competency Framework: a manual for health professionals - IDMH Core Competency Framework - UNSW
- Information and testing for mental health in Indigenous Australians - Indigenous Psychological Services - Dr Tracy Westerman
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- ‘CHAP’ Comprehensive Health Assessment Program - A health assessment for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities - Adult Comprehensive Health Assessment Program (CHAP) for People with Intellectual Disability – Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
- Behaviour recording tools - Data Collection for Behaviour - Earlywood Education
- A checklist about mood, behaviour and symptoms for carers to complete where a person is unable to report their experience verbally - Depression and mood checklist - Monash Health
- Resources to help talk with the doctor about physical and mental health - Communication tools for Mental Health - Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Supported decision-making framework and resources - The La Trobe Support for Decision Making Practice Framework Learning Resource - La Trobe University
- Working with the treating doctor - Working with the treating doctor - QLD Government
- A Yellow Book for recording updates and changes in medication - Yellow passport medication records book - SPECTROM
- A record for medications - Easy Read - All my medications workbook and information about my medication – Peter Bates
- Pharmaceutical Care Plan: a record of medications and health conditions - My medicines booklet - Provide UK
- A2D – Admission to Discharge Folder for recording medications in hospital and to help discharge planning - Easy English - Admission2Discharge (A2D) Together Folder – NSW Health
- Julian’s Key Health Passport is a record of important health information if someone is going to hospital - Health Passport - Queensland Health
- My Health Matters folder – a record of things your doctor needs to know about you - Easy Read - My Health Matters folder – Council for Intellectual Disability
- Review and tapering of antipsychotic medications for changed behaviour - Reviewing and Tapering Medicines - NPS Medicinewise
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*Whilst care is taken to ensure the accuracy and currency of these resources at the time of publication, these resources are not always updated after the fact. It is the responsibility of the viewer to determine the appropriateness of a resource as part of their own due diligence. These resources do not replace the need for individual expert advice.