Social prescribing: Exploring general practitioners' and healthcare professionals' perceptions of, and engagement with, the NHS model.

Social prescribing (SP) has rapidly expanded over recent years. Previously a bottom-up, community-led phenomenon, SP is now a formal part of structured NHS policy and practice. This study was designed to ascertain how general practitioners and other primary healthcare professionals (HCPs) within one clinical commissioning group (CCG) perceive and engage with this new NHS model.

The 'nuts and bolts' of including service users and carers in the recruitment of health and social work students in an English university-An interdisciplinary critique.

Background: The literature regarding inclusion of service users and carers (SUACs) in the recruitment processes for future health and social work professionals has primarily presented such inclusion as positive for all. This study is novel in its exploration of the detail of SUACs' involvement and in its reach across a whole university department of health and social care disciplines.

Objective: To examine the detail of ways in which SUACs were actually involved in student selection and whether they have any real influence on recruitment decisions.

Paradoxical and severe hypotension in response to adrenaline infusions in massive quetiapine overdose.

Atypical antipsychotics (quetiapine, olanzapine, risperidone and clozapine) are increasingly prescribed in Australia, and emergency departments report growing rates of overdose of these agents. As these drugs are comparatively new, the spectrum of toxicity may be unfamiliar to critical care physicians. Severe hypotension is a recognised consequence of quetiapine poisoning.