Perinatal Mental Health Bulletin

With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation trust the latest Perinatal Mental Health bulletin is now available to view and 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.

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

Alcohol

Healthy Weight

Healthy Eating

Physical Activity

Spirituality and Mental Health bulletin

Please find attached the latest Spirituality and Mental Health bulletin produced by the Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust library team. If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nsh.uk.

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:

  • Machine learning algorithms and their predictive accuracy for suicide and self-harm: Systematic review and meta-analysis
  • Incidence of suicide within two years of a first diagnosis of depression, anxiety, or mixed anxiety and depression: an exploratory cohort study in primary care using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink
  • Developing theory-informed implementation strategies to embed a suicide safety planning intervention app into a psychiatric emergency department: co-design study using the Behaviour Change Wheel
  • Umbrella review of psychosocial and ward-based interventions to reduce self-harm and suicide risks in in-patient mental health settings

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

Depression & Anxiety Bulletin

Depression & Anxiety The current bulletin for Depression & Anxiety, produced by Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust, is now available to view and download. 

In this edition:

  • A different lens on diagnosis: value of the CFI in asylum seekers’ psychiatric diagnostic assessment
  • Music therapy for patients with depression: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
  • The meaning of ‘acceptance’ of a psychiatric diagnosis: qualitative study of illness narratives with review of the literature
  • Association between somatic symptoms and depression and anxiety in adolescents: a cross-sectional school-based study

For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletin please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

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.

Dementia Bulletin

The latest dementia bulletin from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service has now been published at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/dementia/2025/09/3-september-2025/

In this issue:

  • Effects of a person-centered music-based intervention in the rehabilitation of older adults with mild to moderate dementia
  • The iADRS as an integrated measure of cognition and function: Psychometric evidence from recent clinical trials in early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease
  • Co‐pathology in Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body disease and its association with neuropsychiatric symptoms
  • Alzheimer’s Society launches bold new brand advertising campaign, ‘A Personal Appeal’
  • UK trial launches to transform Alzheimer’s diagnosis with simple blood test

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

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

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

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:

  • Suicide and self-harm content still recommended ‘at industrial scale’ by TikTok and Instagram
  • ‘Sliding into an abyss’: experts warn over rising use of AI for mental health support
  • Youth Suicide Myths: Talking to Save Lives (Podcast)
  • Join the ZSA train-a-thon

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

Dementia Bulletin

The latest dementia bulletin from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service has now been published at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/dementia/2025/09/3-september-2025/

In this issue:

  • NHS supporting record numbers of people living with dementia
  • How AI is accelerating the race to understand dementia
  • Self-Reported Hearing Aid Use and Risk of Incident Dementia
  • World Alzheimer’s Report 2025 launch

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