Action on Smoking and Health (ASH); 2026.
[This 2026 fact sheet presents an overview of vaping behaviour among adults in Great Britain.]
Freely available online
Category: Statistics
Suicide Prevention and Self Harm Bulletin
from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service
All credit goes to our coworkers over at Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service
This webpage features key links and emerging reports about suicide prevention.
In this issue:
- Machine Learning Model for Predicting Suicide Risks Among Patients With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Who Received Opioids
- Substance Use and Suicidality in People at Ultra‐High‐Risk of Psychosis: A Systematic Review
- Exploring Parent Support Needs During and After Adolescent Suicide Crisis Emergency Department Visits: A Qualitative Investigation
- Plus much more
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Beyond GDP insights, UK measures of National Well-being: June 2026.
Office for National Statistics (ONS); 2026.
Exploring quality of life and progress beyond GDP in the UK, drawing on the 59 national well-being measures. Latest release 8 June 2026.
Freely available online
Suicide Prevention and Self Harm bulletin
from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service
In this issue:
- Between Protocol and Presence: Clinicians’ Work in Suicide Risk Assessment
- Recognizing Risk, Responding with Care: The Development of a Crisis Response Program for Suicidal and Homicidal Ideation in Children with Autism
- The impact of patient death and suicide on mental health professionals: mixed-methods study
- Psychological safety on mental health wards: more than preventing harm
- Plus much more
CYPMH Evidence Based Bulletin
Dear all,
please find the Children and Young People’s Mental Health (CYPMH) evidence based bulletin attached. We hope this helps to keep you up to date with current awareness within your department. Please feel free to share and disseminate with colleagues. Some evidence is freely available, others require an Open Athens account to access. Please get in touch with the Library team should you need any support accessing the material.
You can also find the link to this bulletin here: CYPMH Evidence Based bulletin April 2026
If you need any further help or support regarding embedding evidence into your practice, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the library team: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
CYPMH Evidence Based bulletin April 2026 by Katie Roper
CQC Survey Reveals Ongoing Challenges in Community Mental Health Services
The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) 2024 Community Mental Health Survey highlights persistent issues within NHS community mental health services in England. Key findings include:
- Access and Waiting Times: 40% of respondents did not receive support while waiting for their first appointment, and 42% reported that their mental health deteriorated during this period.
- Crisis Care: While 78% knew who to contact during a crisis, 27% did not receive the help they needed, and 47% reported that their families or carers were not offered support during such times.
- Care Planning and Involvement: Over a third (38%) did not have a care plan, and 43% had not had a review meeting to discuss their care. Additionally, 36% reported having no choice in how their care was delivered.
- Support for Broader Needs: Significant numbers of respondents did not receive help or advice for joining community activities (44%), finding work (69%), or accessing financial advice or benefits (67%).
These findings underscore the need for comprehensive improvements in community mental health services to ensure timely access, effective crisis support, and holistic care planning.
Read the full report: CQC – Community Mental Health Survey 2024
The state of medical education and practice in the UK
The workforce report 2022
Source: The King’s Fund Health Management and Policy Alert
This report finds that the number of doctors joining the workforce overall has grown by around 17 per cent over the past five years, but that growth is not consistent. It varies considerably between different groups of doctors, leaving a shortfall in primary care that puts at risk patients’ ability to access GP services. The number of specialty and associate specialty (SAS) and locally employed (LE) doctors on the GMC register has increased at six times the rate of GPs, largely driven by doctors coming from overseas. Current rules actively prevent these doctors from working in areas such as primary care, and the GMC is proposing the government change the Performers List criteria to allow more doctors to work in general practice.
NHS Key Statistics: England
June 2022
Source: House of Commons Library; 2022.
A summary of NHS demand, performance, backlogs, and capacity of services in England. It covers A&E statistics, waiting lists and pressures, ambulance data, delayed discharges, staffing levels including doctors and nurses, and more.
Take a look here: NHS Key Statistics: England, June 2022 – House of Commons Library (parliament.uk)
Public Health
Current Awareness Updates
Reducing the spread of respiratory infections, including COVID-19, in the workplace UK Health Security Agency; April 14 2022
(Public health principles for reducing the spread of respiratory infections, including COVID-19, in the workplace.)
Out of Area Placements in Mental Health Services, January 2022 NHS Digital; April 14 2022
(Publication of adult acute mental health patients being treated outside their provider of usual treatment in January 2022. Statistics are presented nationally and at regional, sustainability and transformation partnership (STP) footprint, clinical commissioning group (CCG) and provider level.)
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics , Performance January, Provisional February 2022 NHS Digital; April 14 2022
(This publication provides the most timely statistics available relating to NHS funded secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services in England. This information will be of use to people needing access to information quickly for operational decision making and other purposes. These statistics are derived from submissions made using version 4.1 of the Mental Health Services Dataset (MHSDS))
Thunderstorm asthma and public health – looking back to move forward UK Health Security Agency; March 18 2022
(In June 2021, the UK Health Security Agency detected a potential episode of
thunderstorm asthma; an increase in people reporting asthma symptoms linked to thunderstorm activity. In this blog post they look at the interplay between the weather and our health and how they can use their scientific surveillance systems to inform future public health responses.)
Integrated health and care services for people experiencing homelessness NICE Talks
(In this episode of NICE Talks they discuss NICE’s recently published guideline on integrated health and social care services for people experiencing homelessness.
The guideline was developed in partnership with the Centre for Homelessness Impact and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. The guideline outlines how people experiencing homelessness can access services tailored for their needs. It highlights that more effort and targeted approaches are often needed to ensure that people experiencing homelessness have access to the same standard of health and social care as the general population.)
Public Health
Current awareness updates
Type 2 diabetes in adults: management.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE); 2021.
[This guideline covers care and management for adults (aged 18 and over) with type 2 diabetes. It focuses on patient education, dietary advice, managing cardiovascular risk, managing blood glucose levels, and identifying and managing long-term complications. In November 2021, NICE reviewed the evidence on SGLT2 inhibitors for adults with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease, and made new recommendations. See the section on chronic kidney disease for more information.]
Cognitive behavioural social skills training: Methods of a randomized controlled trial for youth at risk of psychosis.[Abstract]
Addington J. Early Intervention in Psychiatry 2021;15(6):1626-1636.
[Poor functioning has become a hallmark of many youth at clinical high-risk (CHR) of psychosis. Even for those who do not make the transition to psychosis remain troubled by functional deficits and a decline in functioning increases the odds of transitioning to psychosis. There are very few treatment studies that have attempted to improve social and role functioning. The aim of this paper is to describe the methods of a treatment study to address social and role functioning in CHR.]
Good health and Wellbeing – Social Prescribing: Global Social Prescribing Alliance Playbook.
Global Social Prescribing Alliance; 2021.
[The Global Social Prescribing Playbook is aimed at people and organisations leading local, national, and international implementation of social prescribing. Among other things this report aims to clarify the role of the link worker and help leaders to plan how they can work with community groups, voluntary organisations and civic society to increase the number of community activities available, including across physical activity, financial wellbeing, arts and culture, and nature.]
Gendered experiences of obesity: Narrowing gender gaps in prevention and treatment.
Social Market Foundation; 2021.
[This report explores gendered experiences of obesity in the UK , examining how obesity rates differ between men and women, the drivers of these trends and the extent to which policy aimed at reducing obesity rates needs to be gender specific.]
Emerging infections: monthly summaries.
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA); 2021.
[October update on new or emerging infectious disease events that could affect UK public health.]
Substance misuse treatment for adults: statistics 2020 to 2021.
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities; 2021.
[Statistics on alcohol and drug misuse treatment for adults from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS).]
Environmental enrichment for stroke and other non-progressive brain injury. [Abstract]
Qin H. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2021;11:CD011879.
[OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of environmental enrichment on well-being, functional recovery, activity levels and quality of life in people who have stroke or non-progressive brain injury.]