Quality standard

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Minor changes since publication

February 2022: The definitions of baseline physical health investigations and monitoring for side effects of antipsychotic medication in statement 6 were amended to be clear that either fasting blood glucose or glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) can be used to assess for diabetes, in line with NICE's 2021 exceptional surveillance of testing for diabetes.

March 2016: The Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health (POMH-UK) was included as a data source for quality measures in statement 6.