Please find attached the latest Spirituality and Mental Health bulletin produced by the Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust library team. If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nsh.uk.
Month: September 2025
Suicide Prevention and Self Harm Bulletin
The latest Suicide Prevention and Self Harm Bulletin produced by the Mersey Care Evidently Better team is now available.
In this issue:
- Machine learning algorithms and their predictive accuracy for suicide and self-harm: Systematic review and meta-analysis
- Incidence of suicide within two years of a first diagnosis of depression, anxiety, or mixed anxiety and depression: an exploratory cohort study in primary care using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink
- Developing theory-informed implementation strategies to embed a suicide safety planning intervention app into a psychiatric emergency department: co-design study using the Behaviour Change Wheel
- Umbrella review of psychosocial and ward-based interventions to reduce self-harm and suicide risks in in-patient mental health settings
If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.
Learning from Lived Experience: My Story Playlist
At Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, we know that the most powerful lessons often come directly from people with lived experience.
The My Story playlist brings together personal accounts of recovery, resilience and the challenges of living with mental ill health. These stories are not only deeply moving, they also help shape the way we deliver care and design services.
Watch Jane’s story here: Jane’s story on YouTube
Explore the full playlist: My Story on YouTube
Eating Disorder Bulletin
Depression & Anxiety Bulletin
Depression & Anxiety The current bulletin for Depression & Anxiety, produced by Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust, is now available to view and download.
In this edition:
- A different lens on diagnosis: value of the CFI in asylum seekers’ psychiatric diagnostic assessment
- Music therapy for patients with depression: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
- The meaning of ‘acceptance’ of a psychiatric diagnosis: qualitative study of illness narratives with review of the literature
- Association between somatic symptoms and depression and anxiety in adolescents: a cross-sectional school-based study
For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletin please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
Core beliefs in psychosis: new insights from a systematic review
A new systematic review has explored how core beliefs — the deep, often negative ideas we hold about ourselves and the world — play a role in psychosis.
The findings suggest that these beliefs can shape symptoms, recovery, and response to therapy. For clinicians, this highlights the importance of addressing core beliefs in treatment, not just the symptoms themselves.
This research adds weight to approaches that look at the whole person and their lived experience, making care more personal and effective.
Read the review on The Mental Elf: Core beliefs in psychosis: new insights from a systematic review – National Elf Service
Adult Aphasia, Dysarthria and Dysphagia Bulletin
The latest Adult Aphasia, Dysarthria and Dysphagia Bulletin produced by the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust is now available.
If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.
Dementia Bulletin
The latest dementia bulletin from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service has now been published at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/dementia/2025/09/3-september-2025/
In this issue:
- Effects of a person-centered music-based intervention in the rehabilitation of older adults with mild to moderate dementia
- The iADRS as an integrated measure of cognition and function: Psychometric evidence from recent clinical trials in early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease
- Co‐pathology in Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body disease and its association with neuropsychiatric symptoms
- Alzheimer’s Society launches bold new brand advertising campaign, ‘A Personal Appeal’
- UK trial launches to transform Alzheimer’s diagnosis with simple blood test
If you are unable to access any of the included items please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.
Government launches new neighbourhood health services
The government has announced new neighbourhood health services in 43 communities across England, supported by £10 million funding.
These services will bring together GPs, nurses, pharmacists, social care staff, and voluntary organisations to provide joined-up support closer to where people live.
For mental health, this means earlier help, less time waiting, and care that looks at the whole person – not just individual conditions. By connecting physical and mental health support, the aim is to reduce avoidable hospital visits and make it easier for people to get the help they need in their own communities.
Read more here: Government launches new neighbourhood health services | UK Healthcare News
Community Health Bulletin
The latest Community health Bulletin produced by the Evidently Better team at Mersey Care NHS FT is now available.
In this edition:
- Crisis and acute mental health care
- For urgent action: campaign to vaccinate all frontline healthcare staff
- Do we really understand what a healthy weight looks like for all ethnicities?
- When healthcare advice feels like blame – the problem with ‘Making Every Contact Count’
- No Neighbourhood Health Without Mental Health
- New healthier food standards to give babies best start in life
If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.