Category: Community Mental Health

Community Health Bulletin

Dear all,

The latest Community Health Bulletin is ready for you to view at  https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2026/02/25-february-2026/

In this edition:

  • Community Mental Health Survey 2024: national qualitative report
  • Transforming access to children and young people’s mental health support
  • How the internet hijacked our health
  • Liverpool’s ‘blue people’: the older adults redefining what ageing looks like
  • Thousands recruited for “new era” severe mental illness study
  • Children to be better protected from second-hand smoking and vaping
  • Plus much more

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


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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

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


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Community Health

January Bulletin

The latest Community Health Bulletin is ready for you to view at  https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2026/01/27-january-2026/

In this edition:

  • Eating disorder services for children and young people: National guidance
  • Lost in my own city: Life after prison
  • Health Inequalities Briefing Pack: What is it and how should we use it?
  • Life-saving Jess’s Rule to be advertised in every GP surgery
  • Digital harms are a modern determinant of health – and a population health issue
  • Amend regulations to support the supply and deployment of vaccines
  • Plus much more
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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:

  • 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

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

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Supporting partnership working in local communities

Strong partnership working is essential for improving health and wellbeing, especially when challenges are complex and cross organisational boundaries.

A new 2025 report from The Kings Fund shares learning from the Healthy Communities Together programme. Drawing on real experience of setting up and running the programme, the report offers practical insight into what helps partnerships work well at a local level.

Key themes include the importance of trust, shared purpose and clear relationships, as well as the time and support needed to build partnerships that feel meaningful rather than transactional. The learning is particularly relevant for those working across health, local government, voluntary sector and community organisations, where collaboration is central to tackling health inequalities.

This report provides useful guidance for anyone involved in developing or supporting partnership working and offers realistic reflections on both the opportunities and the challenges involved.

The full report is freely available online: How To Support Partnership Working | The King’s Fund

Community Health

December Bulletin

You can view the latest Community Health Bulletin, completed by our colleagues at Mersey Care, here: https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2025/12/16-december-2025/

In this edition:

  • Medicines in community mental health services
  • Co-occurring mental health and substance use: delivery framework
  • Youth Matters: A new national strategy and a critical moment for young people’s mental health
  • ‘Life being stressful is not an illness’ – why this BBC headline misses the point
  • Review launched into mental health, ADHD and autism services
  • New research collaboration to tackle ethnic inequalities in perinatal severe mental illness
  • Plus much more

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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