Category: Community Care

Community Health Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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In this edition:

  • NHS mental health system failing staff and patients, warns Mind, as survey reveals widespread concerns over quality of care
  • Psychosis and schizophrenia in adults: prevention and management [CG178], (Updated 04 September 2026)
  • Follow-up care for people discharged from mental health inpatient care
  • Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2026
  • Mental health services must change to better support survivors of non-recent child sexual abuse, acknowledges RCPsych
  • Parents urged to vaccinate children at the right time to protect them
  • Plus much more
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Understanding how dementia-friendly communities support participation and inclusion for people living with dementia: a realist evaluation in Northern Ireland.

BMC Public Health; 2026.

These findings highlight the potential of dementia-friendly communities as a public health approach to promoting participation, inclusion, and social connectedness for people living with dementia

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Community Health Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

credit to our co-workers over at Mersey Care for making this bulletin.

In this edition:

  • Smoking and vaping: guidance, policy and regulation
  • Healthy childhoods: shared responsibility for growing up well
  • Fighting Misinformation in the AI SEO era
  • What happens to strength, balance, stamina and reflexes as you age – and what you can do about it
  • NHS urges those eligible to book a flu jab ahead of this winter season
  • Study examines how remote mental health care is working in practice
  • Plus much more

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Update – helping people stay happy, healthy and independent: An update on the briefing from 2019.

Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA); 2026.

https://www.hfma.org.uk/publications/update-helping-people-stay-happy-healthy-and-independent
[This briefing outlines how community services remain central to delivering the NHS’s three strategic shifts — from hospital to community, treatment to prevention, and analogue to digital — by helping people stay healthy, independent and connected while reducing avoidable pressure on acute services.]
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Neighbourhood health: Outcomes, trust and local delivery.

Public Policy Projects; 2026.

Public Policy Projects’ second roundtable on neighbourhood health asked attendees to consider what neighbourhood health should achieve, and how the system will know whether it is working. The discussion pointed towards a broader test of success, such as whether neighbourhood working improves people’s lives in ways they recognise, helps services respond earlier and more effectively, and enables public sector partners to work around communities rather than institutional boundaries.
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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

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Latest Community Health Bulletin

Dear all,

The latest Community Health Bulletin is ready for you to view at  https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2026/05/7-may-2026/

In this edition:

  • Government response to the report ‘The First 1000 Days: a renewed focus’
  • “More Than Missing School”
  • Adopting a greener lens on mental health
  • NHS overhauls clinical standards to reduce maternal deaths
  • Overwhelmed community mental health nurses raise alarm over staffing and caseloads
  • Tobacco and Vapes Bill becomes law
  • Plus much more

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Community Health Bulletin

Dear all,

The latest Community Health Bulletin is ready for you to view at  https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2026/02/11-february-2026/

In this edition:

  • Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2024/25
  • Substance misuse treatment in secure settings: 2024 to 2025
  • Co-regulation: advice for coping with our children’s – and our own – big emotions
  • What if the ‘nanny state’ is exactly what our health needs?
  • Designed for life? Why mental health services need a radical redesign of their physical fabric
  • New fund to tackle cancer screening inequalities and save lives
  • Plus much more

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Thank you

Community Health Bulletin

Dear all,

The latest Community Health Bulletin is ready for you to view at  https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2026/02/11-february-2026/

In this edition:

  • Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2024/25
  • Substance misuse treatment in secure settings: 2024 to 2025
  • Co-regulation: advice for coping with our children’s – and our own – big emotions
  • What if the ‘nanny state’ is exactly what our health needs?
  • Designed for life? Why mental health services need a radical redesign of their physical fabric
  • New fund to tackle cancer screening inequalities and save lives
  • Plus much more

Please let us know if there are other people who you think might benefit from receiving this bulletin.


Thank you

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:

  • The Mental Health Act 2025: what you need to know
  • Children’s Mental Health: Listen Up! – Joint Conference Special
  • The rising rates of common mental health conditions across all ages
  • Abuse victims to get specialist NHS support
  • Patient experience: do patients feel involved in decisions about their care?
  • Menopause and Long COVID

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