Quality prescribing for Benzodiazepines and z-drugs: guide for improvement 2024 to 2027

Acknowledgements

Chairpersons

Alastair Cook Principal Medical Officer Psychiatric Adviser, Scottish Government

Deputy Chair

Alpana Mair Head of Effective Prescribing and Therapeutics Division, Government

Short-Life Working Group members

Ailsa Stein SIGN Programme Manager, Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Andrew Walker Scottish Mental Health Pharmacy Group

Ann Wales Programme Lead, Knowledge and Decision Support, Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre

Beth Crozier Senior Policy Officer, Effective Prescribing and Therapeutics, Scottish Government

Chris F Johnson Clinical Pharmacist, General Practice and Specialist Mental Health Lead, Effective Prescribing and Therapeutics, Scottish Government

Claire Campbell Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Aberdeenshire Alcohol and Drug Service (AADS)

David Revie Community Link Worker, We Are With You

Denise McFarlane GP and Chair Local Medical Committee: Grampian

Donald Macintyre Consultant General Psychiatrist, Associate Medical Director, NHS 24

Duncan Hill Specialist Pharmacist in Substance Misuse, NHS Lanarkshire

Kieran Dinwoodie GP, NHS Lanarkshire

Iain Wilson GP Clinical Lead, Effective Prescribing and Therapeutics, Scottish Government

Irene Oldfather Director Strategic Partnerships and Engagement Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland, The ALLIANCE

Jackie Wiggins Older Adults Mental Health, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Joe Lockhart Administrative Support, Scottish Government

Laura Wilson Policy and Practice Lead, Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Lesley Colvin Prof of Pain Medicine and Hon Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, University of Dundee

Lise Hertel Associate Medical Director, NHS Western Isles

Margaret Umeed General Practice Nurse, and Advanced Nurse Practitioner Trainer

Paul Paxton Senior Information Analyst, Public Health Scotland

Stephanie Cymber Senior Policy Officer, Mental Health Clinical Care Policy Team, Scottish Government

Stuart Law Head of Policy & Research, Effective Prescribing and Therapeutics, Scottish Government

Stuart McTaggart Principal Pharmacist, Public Health Scotland

Valerie Munro Community Psychiatric Nurse, Adult Psychiatry, NHS Lothian

Acknowledgements

Sharon Pfleger Consultant in Pharmaceutical Public Health, NHS Highland

Julius Cesar Alejandre Doctoral Research and Hydro Nation Scholar, Glasgow Caledonian University

We would like to thank NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde for their support and use of prescribing resources.