{"id":436377,"date":"2026-02-20T16:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/436377\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:13:16","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out-of-date-heres-what-a-new-draft-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/436377\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s schizophrenia guidelines have long been out of date \u2014 here&#8217;s what a new draft says"},"content":{"rendered":"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":436378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[100084,102,1906,6623,50,20494,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-436377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-guidelines","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-mentalhealth","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-psychiatry","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}