A briefing produced by the Centre for Mental Health has listed manifesto ideas for candidates in the upcoming local elections to consider to improve mental health for their communities. The policies include work to reduce poverty, improve the environment, support the best start in life and provide better access to quality services.
The latest British Social Attitudes survey carried out by think tanks The King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust has shown public overall satisfaction with the NHS has fallen to 29 per cent – a seven percent decrease from 2021 and the lowest level of satisfaction recorded since the survey began in 1983.
Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2022 | The King’s Fund (kingsfund.org.uk)
Inequalities in Covid rates have been found according to ethnicity, religion, measures of socioeconomic position, English proficiency and self-reported disability, according to a cohort study of 39 million people in England during the alpha and delta waves of Covid.
Shutting schools during COVID-19 lockdowns might have helped reduce transmission of Covid but also hurt children’s education, health, and wellbeing, a study of international evidence in the BMJ has concluded.
School closures during COVID-19: an overview of systematic reviews (bmj.com)
A systematic review and meta analysis of over 800,000 patients most likely to get Long Covid has found women, smokers and those who had severe COVID-19 infection are at a higher risk of Long COVID.Â
Researchers also found that patients who had at least two doses of the COVID vaccine had a significantly lower risk of getting Long COVID.
Clinicians don’t feel they have enough training on health inequalities and would like more as part of their medical education, a report by the Royal College of Physicians has found. Of the clinicians’ surveyed 67 per cent of respondents had not received teaching or training in health inequalities within a training programme or as part of their degree and only 26 per cent felt confident in their ability to reduce the impact of health inequalities in their medical practice.
This series looking at the current state of the UK rental market will contain stories familiar to anyone renting or looking for somewhere to rent in the UK BBC Radio 4 – Rental Health.
The latest Digital Mental Health bulletin, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, has been published.
If you are unable to access any of the articles in it please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.
A report by the Healthier Housing Partnership (an independent partnership of academics, housing, environmental health and regeneration practitioners and housing and health researchers) has stressed the need for housing to be an essential part of future strategies to improve health and for making better use of resources to achieve better health outcomes.
A White Paper on the government’s proposals to help more disabled people and people with health conditions to start, stay and succeed in work has been published. It pledges to invest in employment support for disabled people and people with health conditions, ensure people can access the right support at the right time and have a better overall experience when applying for and receiving health and disability benefits reform the benefits system for the future so it focuses on what people can do rather than on what they cannot.
