A five-point plan including advice for clinicians and information for patients, post-Covid assessment clinics, and specialist online rehabilitation support was published in October 2020. This plan outlines 10 key next steps to be taken to support those suffering from long Covid.
Read the plan here.
In 2020, PHE’s healthy communities team partnered with the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) to develop a number of case studies that reflect the role of volunteering in community-centred public health systems. This is part of PHE’s work on whole system approaches to community-centred public health, as well as NCVO’s workplan as a member of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance.
Through this work, NCVO have pulled together six case studies, that reflect a range of public health themes and volunteering approaches. They also reflect work from a range of settings, from rural Cumbria to large cities such as Birmingham and Sheffield.
For more information click here.
Windrush Day honours the British Caribbean community, and the half a million people who travelled to the UK after the Second World War. The first Windrush Day was held on June 22 2018. More people than ever before are taking part this year to support the Windrush Generation, and show sympathy with the hardships they have endured.
For more information please read here.
We are currently promoting a collection of books inspired by the Windrush Generation in the library. If you would like one of these books to be posted out to you please email us academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
Read this week’s bulletin on Learning Disabilities here.
The current bulletin for Public Health, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download here
For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletin please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
Thank-you to everyone who attended our lunch and learn session this week. Our guest speaker, Paul Bibby , Head of Strategy and Business Planning, gave us a very interesting insight into strategy development.
If you missed the session, you can watch the session recording here (please use your LSCFT email to access) or view the presentation slides here.
We would really appreciate any feedback on these sessions. If you have a few spare minutes we kindly ask you to complete our survey- which should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete: https://www.surveymonkey.com
Our next session will be held in July and will focus on Sustainability and Environmental Changes . We hope to see you there. Please contact carmel.smith@lscft.nhs.uk if you would like an invite to this session.
The current bulletins for Substance Misuse and Coronavirus 19, Covid-19 and the Health Workforce and Covid-19 and Mental Health, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, are now available to view and download.
For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletins please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
Fairer foundations: How has the pandemic affected young people’s mental health? Infographic
The Health Foundation; 2021.
[This infographic highlights the unequal mental health effects of the pandemic among young people. Young people’s lives have been significantly impacted by the pandemic – disrupted schooling, lost employment and not being able to see friends. But the effects of the crisis have not been the same for everyone, including a divergence of mental health experiences.]
Coronavirus and depression in adults, Great Britain: January to March 2021.
Office for National Statistics (ONS); 2021.
[Analysis of the proportion of the British adult population experiencing some form of depression in early 2021, by age, sex and other characteristics. Includes comparisons with 2020 and pre-pandemic estimates.]
Care pathway and prioritization of rapid testing for COVID-19 in UK hospitals: a qualitative evaluation.[Abstract]
Hicks T. BMC Health Services Research 2021;21(1):532.
[This study sought to understand the care pathways in place in UK NHS hospitals during the first wave (March-July 2020) for identification of patients with COVID-19 and to learn lessons to inform optimal testing strategies within the COVID-19 National Diagnostic Research and Evaluation Platform (CONDOR). During the winter months, priority for provision of rapid testing at admission should be given to hospitals with limited access to laboratory services and single room availability.]
Adult social care and COVID-19 after the first wave: assessing the policy response in England: Our analysis of the national government policy response for social care between June 2020 and March 2021.
The Health Foundation; 2021.
[In this briefing, the Health Foundation analyse policies to support adult social care during the height of the second wave of the pandemic in January and February 2021, and in the months leading up to it. We provide a narrative summary of central government policies related to adult social care in different areas, such as policies on testing and support for the workforce. We also provide a summary of the latest publicly available data on the impacts of COVID-19 on adult social care.]
Happy to help: the welfare effects of a nationwide micro-volunteering programme.
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); 2021.
[This paper estimates the wellbeing benefits from volunteering for England’s NHS Volunteer Responders programme, which was set up in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It found that active volunteers report significantly higher life satisfaction, feelings of worthwhileness, social connectedness, and belonging to their local communities. A social welfare analysis shows that the benefits of the programme were at least 140 times greater than its costs.]
Coronavirus Act report: May 2021.
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC); 2021.
[The seventh two-monthly report on which powers in the Coronavirus Act 2020 are currently active.]
Vivaldi study: results.
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC); 2021.
[Results for the Vivaldi study for antibody and cellular immune responses to coronavirus (COVID-19) in approximately 340 care homes.]
Deaths involving COVID-19 in the care sector, England and Wales: deaths registered between week ending 20 March 2020 and week ending 2 April 2021.
Office for National Statistics (ONS); 2021.
[Provisional figures on deaths involving the coronavirus (COVID-19), an investigation into wave 1 versus wave 2 within the care sector, in England and Wales.]
The current bulletin for Health Services Management, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download here
For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletin please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
The new Student Companion site is now available as part of our online subscription to the Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures. The site gives you access to the rich tools and resources available for the manual.
There are plenty of exciting learning tools for student nurses to help test and grow their knowledge such as:
