{"id":490051,"date":"2026-02-19T11:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490051\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:49:11","slug":"australias-schizophrenia-guidelines-have-long-been-out-of-date-heres-what-a-new-draft-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490051\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s schizophrenia guidelines have long been out of date \u2014 here&#8217;s what a new draft says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psychiatrists have drawn up new schizophrenia management guidelines that\u00a0would, if endorsed, mark\u00a0the first Australasian update in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists last published guidelines in 2016, but has been warning doctors that they are not\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ranzcp.org\/clinical-guidelines-publications\/clinical-guidelines-publications-library\/schizophrenia-cpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">considered current<\/a> because they are more than five years old.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an estimated 200,000 people having schizophrenia, co-author of the new draft, Professor Shuichi Suetani, said no new blockbuster treatments had emerged in the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat there has been is a much improved and increased focus on the physical health of people with mental illness,\u201d the Queensland psychiatrist told AusDoc.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Psychiatrists have drawn up new schizophrenia management guidelines that\u00a0would, if endorsed, mark\u00a0the first Australasian update in a decade.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,5008,137,514,515,44,27393],"class_list":["post-490051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-guidelines","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-news","tag-psychiatry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}