November 2025
See how we supported you this last month. The Library is here to support you to embed evidence into clinical practice and support the mobilisation of knowledge.
Library Roundup
Category: Finding the Evidence
How did we help you?
An overview of some evidence searches completed last month
Take a look at some of the literature searches we completed last month. The outcomes help to support clinical decision making, inform patient care or plan for service developments.
If you would like to request a literature search, please complete the form below and send it back to academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
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.
Eating Disorder Bulletin
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.
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.
Education Bulletin
With thanks to our colleagues at Mid-Cheshire NHS Foundation trust the latest Education 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.
Transforming UK Clinical Research – August 2025 Update
The UK government’s August 4, 2025 update on clinical research makes notable progress in streamlining trial delivery via the UK Clinical Research Delivery (UKCRD) programme. Major highlights include:
- A bold target to reduce clinical trial setup times to 150 days or less, enabled by digitalisation, reduced bureaucracy, and standard contracts. Phase 1 deliverables were released in April 2025 and phase 2 in June 2025.
- The VPAG investment programme is enabling faster commercial trial delivery by establishing new Commercial Research Delivery Centres across the UK.
- A shift toward a “right research, right setting” model aims to move more studies into primary and community care, making research more accessible locally.
- The ‘proactive portfolio management’ approach is being adopted to enhance collaboration between NIHR and industry, including SMEs, with oversight via an Industry Advisory Group.
- The reforms build on previous commitments, with streamlined costing and contracting frameworks already completed across NHS England and devolved systems.
Read the full update from the Department of Health and Social Care here: Transforming the UK clinical research system: August 2025 update – GOV.UK
Forensic Psychiatry Bulletin August 2025
With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation trust the latest Forensic Psychiatry 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.