Service innovation: a comparison of two approaches for physical screening of psychiatric inpatients.

Objective: Psychiatric medications have clear links to obesity, diabetes, dyslipidaemia, hypertension, hyperprolactinaemia and movement disorders. These disorders are a common cause of morbidity and mortality in psychiatric patients but physical screening by health services is often haphazard.

Methods: We report the findings of an audit of physical screening across two hospital wards.