Mental health: Using evidence to improve care.

Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP); 2026.

https://www.hqip.org.uk/news/mental-health-from-crisis-to-evidence-informed-improvement/


[HQIP’s CEO, Chris Gush, explains why data is pivotal to the national review of services and the transformation of mental health care.]
Freely available online

Mental health difficulties among young adults have doubled in past decade.

Centre for Longitudinal Studies; 2026.

https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health-difficulties-among-young-adults-have-doubled-in-past-decade/


[More than a fifth (22%) of generation Z in England report having a longstanding mental health condition in their early 20s, double the rate of millennials (10%) at a similar age ten years earlier, finds a new UCL study.]
Freely available online

July Community Health Bulletin

In this edition:

  • Ockenden review into maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust: final report
  • Government pushes forward with conversion practices ban to protect LGBT+ people from abuse
  • A shared heart: the story of Fleetwood’s community health hub
  • The danger of confusing AI mental health support with therapy
  • New funding from Forces in Mind Trust to improve mental health care for former Service personnel
  • Pioneering projects to transform obesity care, backed by £85 million from government and industry
  • Plus much more

Ready for you below.

Webinar: IPC review of occupational therapy best practice in adult social care – review findings.

Date: 15th July, 2026, 10:00am-11:00am

This webinar is relevant for: Occupational Therapists (OT) (adults services); Adult social care managers for local authorities; and Health leaders in areas where there is a collaboration between health & the local authority for service delivery of adult OT services. In late 2025, an English local authority commissioned the Institute of Public Care (IPC) to support them to understand more about effective models for OT within adult social care responsibilities.

Online

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What’s the emergency when prisoners go to A&E?

A&E attendances by people in prisons in England.


Nuffield Trust; 2026.
https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/what-s-the-emergency-when-prisoners-go-to-ae-emergency-hospital-attendances-by-people-in-prisons-in-england


[This new report is the first to offer an in-depth assessment of A&E use by people in prison and adds to mounting evidence that health care is harder for prisoners to access. It finds a higher-than-expected number of A&E attendances by prisoners due to paracetamol overdose, seizures, and acute coronary syndrome, with opportunities for targeted intervention in these areas to avoid health crises.]
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new Neurodiversity Bulletin!

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The latest Neurodiversity Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/neurodiversity/2026/07/1-july-2026/


In this edition:

  • Recognizing Risk, Responding with Care: The Development of a Crisis Response Program for Suicidal and Homicidal Ideation in Children with Autism
  • Perinatal mental health research: priorities from a neurodiverse sample in the United Kingdom
  • Social Burnout And Why It Affects Some Brains Differently
  • A Space to Belong This Pride Month
  • INTEND – ImproviNg Tic services in EnglaND
  • The Late ADHD Reckoning: Top Issues Facing Men After Diagnosis
  • Plus much more

New Learning Disabilities Bulletin


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The latest Learning Disabilities Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability/2026/07/1-july-2026-2/


In this edition:

  • Psychopathology from childhood to adolescence in children with and without Mild Intellectual Disability (MID): a comparison across three MID operationalizations
  • Muckamore Abbey Hospital Inquiry Report Published
  • Falling nurse numbers leave people with learning disabilities behind
  • Lived Experience of Pica: a parent and sister’s perspective
  • New three-year learning disabilities and autism plan to “transform” support
  • What four things are carers telling us about health and social care?
  • Plus much more