Category: Community Mental Health

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 Big Mental Health Report 2025
  • How does parenting impact children’s development?
  • Turning around the public’s declining mental health
  • How will waiting times in community health services affect the shift towards neighbourhood health?
  • Improved safeguarding and protections for vulnerable people
  • Public attitudes to mental health are going backwards, warns Mind

If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

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Improving Support for People with Complex Mental Health Difficulties

A new report from the Centre for Mental Health explores how to improve care for people living with complex mental health difficulties.

The report shows that long hospital stays far from home can leave people feeling isolated and disconnected from their communities. It offers a more compassionate and effective alternative through local community-based support that includes intensive psychotherapy, therapeutic day programmes and high-support accommodation when needed.

This approach helps people stay close to family, friends and familiar surroundings while receiving specialist care. It reminds us that recovery is not only about treatment but also about connection, belonging and stability.

Read the full report here: CentreforMH_ImprovingSupportForPeopleWithComplexMHDifficulties.pdf

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:

  • Health trends and variation in England 2025: a Chief Medical Officer report
  • All or nothing? Access and variation in NHS continuing health care
  • Jess’s Rule: Three strikes and we rethink
  • NHS App’s family access feature “as simple as switching Netflix profiles”
  • Racial discrimination may increase psychosis risk
  • Societal inequality linked to structural brain changes in children

If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

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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:

  • Follow-up care for people discharged from mental health inpatient care
  • Lived experience: informing inclusive health protection
  • Why I’m championing enhanced therapeutic observations and care (ETOC)
  • Experts come together to discuss social media use in children and young people
  • Supporting new community-led approaches to health and wellbeing
  • Junk food advertising ban takes positive step forward but ambitious measures needed to tackle childhood obesity

If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

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Making Every Contact Count

The most recent Make Every Contact count public heath bulletin looking at latest evidence around smoking cessation, alcohol, healthy weight, healthy eating and physical exercise is now available. The bulletin is produced by Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS FT Library staff. If you cannot access any of the articles included in the bulletin please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

Smoking Cessation

Smoking Cessation Sep 2025Download

Alcohol

Alcohol Sep 2025Download

Healthy Weight

Healthy Weight Sep 2025Download

Healthy Eating

Healthy Eating Sep 2025Download

Physical Activity

Physical Activity Sep 2025Download

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

The latest Eating Disorder Bulletin is now available to view or download. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account. Please get in touch for support with this: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

Sept 2025Download

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.

Adult dysphagia etc Sept 2025Download

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