The latest Adult Aphasia, Dysarthria and Dysphagia Bulletin produced by the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust is now available.
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Category: Community Mental Health
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
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Adult Mental Health Bulletin
The latest Adult Mental Health Bulletin is out courtesy of our friends at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.
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Exploring evidence regarding vision-based monitoring in inpatient mental health units
The Care Quality Commission commissioned a rapid evidence review to assess vision-based monitoring systems (VBMS) in inpatient mental health settings. The study examined 68 documents and conducted 11 interviews to understand how VBMS are used and their impact on safety and care.
Key insights include:
- VBMS can track location, activity, vital signs, and support informed interventions, helping reduce sleep disturbances, self-harm incidents, restraint use, and operational costs.
- Some evidence shows reductions such as a 44% drop in bedroom self-harm incidents and a 26% fall in restraint use, though findings are limited and mixed.
- Significant concerns around consent, privacy infringement, diminished patient dignity, and risk of re-traumatisation were raised.
- The report highlights gaps in regulation, policy guidance, and evidence quality—calling for clearer oversight, ethical safeguards, and further independent research to inform CQC’s stance.
Read the full report here: Exploring evidence regarding vision-based monitoring in inpatient mental health units – Care Quality Commission
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:
- Exercising our rights: Improving access to physical activity for people living with severe mental illness
- PAGB launch new 2025 Self-Care Census Report
- Black maternal mental health – interconnected issues at the heart
- How to Talk to a Friend About Their Mental Health: A Helpful Guide
- NHS launches first ever review to tackle LGBT+ health inequalities
- Moving care out of hospital: what can England learn from other countries?
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Eating Disorder Bulletin August 2025
Community Health Bulletin
Current Awareness Bulletin With thanks to our colleagues from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust please find the latest bulletin attached. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account.
In this edition:
- Older northerners struggle with “alarming” inequalities compared to people from the South
- Understanding drivers of recent trends in young people’s mental health
- Taking action on obesity: what do the public think?
- Invest in better mental health support for people in the criminal justice system, say charities
- Postnatal depression harming up to 85,000 new mums in England, warns RCPsych
- Still the Government’s best-kept secret? Access to Work for people with mental health difficulties
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Community Health Bulletin
The latest Community Health Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2025/07/15-july-2025/
In this edition:
- 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future
- Review of patient safety across the health and care landscape
- Big Questions in Psychiatry: Responsibility in psychiatry exploring blame, compassion and mental illness (CPD eLearning)
- BPS publishes refreshed guidance on assessment, formulation and diagnosis
- What’s stopping us from self-caring? New Self-Care Forum data exposes deep inequalities in self-care confidence and behaviour
- Obesity care: why “eat less, move more” advice is failing
- Plus much more
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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:
- Three Dads’ pride at suicide prevention lessons in schools
- Provisional patient suicide data (2012-2024)
- Effects of sandplay group therapy on children at risk of suicidal ideation
- Suicide prevention starts before the crisis: intervention guidelines for university students
- Work stress and its association with suicidal ideation, health and presenteeism during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional study in the UK health and university workforce
- Plus much more
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