Schizophrenia and the Physical Health Challenge: Mortality, Physical Health and Antipsychotics

This 1-hour session is being delivered via MS Teams by John Donohue and includes a Q&A session at the end. John is an award-winning Mental Health Pharmacist who was previously principal clinical pharmacist in the Department of Community Psychiatry at Clatterbridge Hospital. John’s NHS experience includes primary care, hospital pharmacy and senior management at health authority level. Topics covered in the talk: • All-cause and specific cause mortality • Physical health risk factors and morbidity • Antipsychotics and mortality • Antipsychotics and cardiometabolic health