Dual diagnosis

Often the needs of carers of people with dual diagnosis are ignored when they too may be doubly isolated and unsupported. Reports on a pilot two-day training workshop for carers in Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care NHS Trust, based on training provided for the trust's community and inpatient mental health staff. Discusses what both staff and carers found useful about the workshops.

BACKGROUND: Comorbid substance misuse in people with schizophrenia is associated with poor clinical and social outcomes.

The Blake Marsh lecture, an annual lecture on learning disability, was endowed in 1963 in memory of Dr Blake Marsh, the former medical superintendent of Bromham House Colony in Bedford.