Category: Systematic Reviews

Community Health Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

credit to our co-workers over at Mersey Care for making this bulletin.

In this edition:

  • Smoking and vaping: guidance, policy and regulation
  • Healthy childhoods: shared responsibility for growing up well
  • Fighting Misinformation in the AI SEO era
  • What happens to strength, balance, stamina and reflexes as you age – and what you can do about it
  • NHS urges those eligible to book a flu jab ahead of this winter season
  • Study examines how remote mental health care is working in practice
  • Plus much more

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Community Health Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Credit to our coworkers over at Mersey Care.

In this edition:

  • National partnership agreement on asylum seeker health in England
  • Care continuity between midwifery and health visiting services
  • Billions are spent on child mental health services without knowing if they work in the long term
  • Major expansion of community mental health support across England
  • Misleading AI-generated doctors pose ‘huge danger to public safety’
  • Better support, better outcomes: New report highlights what works in early psychosis care
  • Plus much more
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Effectiveness of infection prevention and control interventions in reducing health-care-associated infections in long-term care facilities for older people: a systematic review.

The Lancet : Healthy Longevity; 2026.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(26)00043-7/fulltext
[This Systematic Review shows that IPC interventions in Long Term Care Facilities are more likely to be effective when they are implemented as coordinated, multifaceted interventions incorporating elements of the WHO MultiModal Improvement Strategy MMIS (core component 5).]
Freely available online

Community Health Bulletin

by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

A big thanks to our co-workers over at Mersey Care!

In this edition:

  • 10 Year Capital Plan to rebuild NHS and bring care closer to home
  • Mental health personalised care framework: the modern care programme approach
  • New UK CMO activity guidelines show every movement counts
  • One in five women attend A&E in the year after giving birth, with stark inequalities rooted long before pregnancy
  • Impact of drug and alcohol treatment on reoffending
  • Children’s Mental Health: Listen Up! Understanding psychosis in children and young people
  • Plus much more
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Latest Suicide Prevention and Self Harm bulletin

Dear all,

The latest Suicide Prevention and Self Harm bulletin from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service can now be viewed at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/bulletins/suicide-prevention/

This webpage features key links and emerging reports about suicide prevention.

In this issue:    

  • Characteristics of Adolescents With Elevated Suicide Risk Presenting to the ED With Physical Health Complaints
  • Effects of Digital Interventions Implemented in Schools to Improve Youth Emotion Regulation: A Systematic Review
  • Emotion Reactivity Moderates the Association Between Momentary Negative Affect and Suicidal Thinking
  • Ketamine addiction following a single sub-anaesthetic ketamine treatment for acute suicidality in a psychiatrically multimorbid patient: case report
  • Plus much more

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Latest Learning Disabilities Bulletin

Dear all,

Welcome to the new Learning Disabilities Bulletin!

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The latest Learning Disabilities Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability/2026/04/21-april-2026-3/


In this edition:

  • Factors Associated With Restraint Application in Children and Adolescents With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Displaying Severe Challenging Behavior
  • Mental Health Effects of Bullying in Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Review
  • Minimum standards for keyworking services for autistic children and young people and children and young people with a learning disability
  • Working together with parents who have learning disabilities: the role of Adult Services
  • My journey through NHS Talking Therapies
  • Social care inequities hub launched by SCIE
  • Plus much more

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Digital peer support interventions for people with mental health conditions in outpatient settings

A systematic review and meta-analysis

Source: Croke S. BMJ Mental Health 2026;29(1):1-8.

Studies evaluated digital peer support via online platforms, mobile apps or digital communities for people aged ≥16 years with mental health conditions. Digital peer support offers modest improvements in symptoms and functioning for individuals with mental health conditions and may be considered as an adjunct to usual care to enhance engagement and provide accessible support between clinical contacts.

Read the full article here: Digital peer support interventions for people with mental health conditions in outpatient settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis | BMJ Mental Health

Core beliefs in psychosis: new insights from a systematic review

A new systematic review has explored how core beliefs — the deep, often negative ideas we hold about ourselves and the world — play a role in psychosis.

The findings suggest that these beliefs can shape symptoms, recovery, and response to therapy. For clinicians, this highlights the importance of addressing core beliefs in treatment, not just the symptoms themselves.

This research adds weight to approaches that look at the whole person and their lived experience, making care more personal and effective.

Read the review on The Mental Elf: Core beliefs in psychosis: new insights from a systematic review – National Elf Service

Let’s Address Hatred

A systematic review

Written by one of our own colleagues – (Salman Shafiq) the aim of this review is to highlight how hatred can be addressed. Key themes derived include the need for a better understanding of hate, responding appropriately to hate, addressing hatred from different angles utilising tools and resources and actively intervening to address hatred through strategies, inclusion projects or psycho social interventions.

You can read the article here: A Systematic Review on How to Address Hatred in its Various Manifestations: Understand Its Different Aspects, Use Different Tools and Specific Interventions or take a look at a poster which was shared at the Royal College of Psychiatrist International Congress:

LSCFT Research Bulletin

Latest Edition

The July edition of the LSCFT research bulletin is now available to view and download. This showcases some of the work our colleagues have been involved in.

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