The March edition of British Journal of Psychiatry is now available. This issue includes articles on associations of adverse childhood experiences and social support with self-injurious behaviour and suicidality in adolescents, childhood abuse and psychotic experiences in adulthood, and electroconvulsive therapy and later stroke in patients with affective disorders.
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Month: March 2019
The State of Ageing in 2019
Centre for Ageing Better, March 2019
This report uses publicly available data to give a snapshot of what life is like for people aged 65 and older today. It then investigates the prospects for people currently in their 50s and 60s with regards to work, finances, health, housing and community support. It looks at the implications of an increasingly ageing society for the individual, government, business and wider society.
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Library Mental Health Bulletins
LCFT Gosall Library, March 2019
This week’s Library bulletins are on Dementia and Learning Disabilities.
Keeping kids safe: improving safeguarding responses to gang violence and criminal exploitation
Children’s Commissioner for England, March 2019
This report estimates there are 27,000 children in England who identify as a gang member, only a fraction of whom are known to children’s services. It recommends that the government needs to make child criminal exploitation a national priority, and lay out clear expectations about the role of all organisations working with children – including the police, schools, children’s services and NHS bodies. There also needs to be more support from the NHS, including better mental health support for children at risk of gang membership and exclusion.
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Exploring dementia and agitation: how public policy needs to respond
International Longevity Centre UK, March 2019
The MARQUE (Managing Agitation and Raising Quality of Life in Dementia) project is the largest ever study involving people living in care homes. The study examined critical issues for people living with dementia and their paid and unpaid carers, particularly around the challenges of agitation. This report summarises a number of key findings from the study and makes recommendations for how public policy should respond.
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Neuro numbers 2019
The Neurological Alliance, March 2019
The report shows that the number of neurological cases has now reached at least 14.7 million in England. The report also highlights that the prevalence of neurological conditions will continue to increase due to an ageing population, improvements in diagnosis and advances in neo-natal care.
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Mental health services: addressing the care deficit
NHS Providers, March 2019
This report looks at the levels of demand reported by frontline leaders across the range of services they provide, and examines what lies behind the growing pressures. In particular the report identifies widespread concerns about benefits cuts and the impact of universal credit. It also suggests that loneliness, homelessness and financial hardship are adding to pressures on NHS mental health services.
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Improving patient safety through collaboration: a rapid review of the academic health science networks’ patient safety collaboratives
The ASHN Network, March 2019
This report discusses the progress and impact made by England’s Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSCs) in their first four years. It was commissioned by The AHSN Network and written by The King’s Fund. The report notes how interest is shifting from supporting the improvement of individual services to improving how different services work together in local systems. It highlights the role the PSC programme has had in creating a movement for change and cultivating a shared vision among health and care organisations. It also suggests some areas PSCs and national NHS bodies could focus on to further support innovation, quality improvement and patient safety.
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Dementia 2020 Challenge: 2018 Review Phase 1
Department of Health and Social Care, February 2019
Summarises the views of stakeholders on the progress of the challenge on dementia so far and sets out actions for the final 2 years of the challenge.
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Raising the bar on strength and balance: The importance of community-based provision
Centre for Ageing Better, February 2019
This report by the Centre for Ageing Better and the University of Manchester’s Healthy Ageing Research Group shows a need for sustained, targeted funding for community-based strength and balance programmes. Despite common misconceptions, falls are not an inevitable part of ageing and can be prevented. Although there are some NHS rehabilitation services that provide strength and balance programmes, these are often of limited length, making it essential that there are effective community-based strength and balance programmes in their local areas to move on to. The report presents possible models of delivery, issues, barriers and innovative solutions. It focuses on community-based strength and balance programmes targeting all older adults and includes evidence-based programmes to reduce falls.
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