Psychotropic medication prescribed for children and young people with eating disorders in mental health in-patient services: a quality improvement programme.

The aims of this quality improvement programme were to enable providers of mental health in-patient services for children and young people in England to review their prescribing practice alongside the views and experiences of children, young people and their parent carers. Three online tools were developed. First was a medication census tool to be completed by provider clinicians to capture prescribing practices around psychotropic medication.

[A case of primary herpetic eye disease].

Herpetic eye disease is very common. However, primary infections are most frequently asymptomatic. We report herein a case of a 15-year-old male whose diagnosis of primary herpetic infection was delayed and who initially had unsuitable treatment that aggravated the symptoms.