Please find a copy of the LSCFT Libraries Eating disorders bulletin here
Supporting Alcohol Change UK
At the library, we believe in the power of information and community. That’s why we’re highlighting the work of Alcohol Change UK, a charity helping people rethink their relationship with alcohol without judgment.
Whether you’re cutting back, supporting someone else, or just curious, they offer tools like the Try Dry® app, expert advice, and honest, practical support.
We’ve also got books, and resources here in the library to help you explore health, wellbeing, and alcohol in a safe and supportive way.
Learn more at alcoholchange.org.uk
Community Health Bulletin
The latest Community Health Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2025/07/15-july-2025/
In this edition:
- 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future
- Review of patient safety across the health and care landscape
- Big Questions in Psychiatry: Responsibility in psychiatry exploring blame, compassion and mental illness (CPD eLearning)
- BPS publishes refreshed guidance on assessment, formulation and diagnosis
- What’s stopping us from self-caring? New Self-Care Forum data exposes deep inequalities in self-care confidence and behaviour
- Obesity care: why “eat less, move more” advice is failing
- Plus much more
Please let us know if there are other people who you think might benefit from receiving this bulletin.
Thank you
Forensic Psychiatry Bulletin July 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.
Learning Disabilities & Autism Bulletin
The latest Learning Disabilities & Autism bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability-autism/2025/07/16-july-2025/
In this edition:
- Developing and testing of an assessment tool for appropriate psychotropic drug prescribing in people with intellectual disabilities
- Understanding the child and adolescent eating disorder treatment experiences of autistic people and parents
- The Phenomenon of Pain in Adults With Intellectual Disability: A Qualitative Systematic Review
- “There is just too much going on there”: Nonverbal communication experiences of autistic adults
- 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future (easy read)
- Understanding Brief Guides: Clear, accessible information for adults and carers
- Plus much more
Please let me know if you think there are other people who would benefit from receiving this and I will add them to the mailing list.
Thank you
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:
- Three Dads’ pride at suicide prevention lessons in schools
- Provisional patient suicide data (2012-2024)
- Effects of sandplay group therapy on children at risk of suicidal ideation
- Suicide prevention starts before the crisis: intervention guidelines for university students
- Work stress and its association with suicidal ideation, health and presenteeism during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional study in the UK health and university workforce
- Plus much more
If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.
Perinatal Mental Health July 2025
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.
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:
- The impact of COVID-19 on parents from Black ethnic backgrounds in the UK: what we have learned and why it still matters
- Revisiting 15 000 hours: towards sustainable school systems for mental health, well-being and learning
- Work stress and its association with suicidal ideation, health and presenteeism during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional study in the UK health and university workforce
- Teen drug use today, mental health struggles tomorrow? What the evidence says
- Plus much more
For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletin 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/2025/07/21-july-2025/
In this issue:
- Music therapy may reduce distress for people with dementia
- Programme to improve sleep in people with dementia is cost-effective
- Acupuncture for patients with mild cognitive impairment: a randomized, patient–assessor-blinded, sham-controlled pilot study
- Therapy for a genetic type of FTD hailed as potentially ‘transformative’
- Plus much more
Please let me know if you think there are other colleagues who would benefit from receiving this bulletin and I will add them to the mailing list.
Adult Social Care Across England
Performance Tracker Local
Institute for Government (IFG); 2025.
Examining the care gap in England. The provision of adult social care by local authorities in England should, in theory, be based on an individual’s need and ability to fund their own care. But this is not what is happening in practice.
There exists a damaging geographical and demographic ‘care gap’ in England that means access to care for older adults is increasingly based not on need but on other factors – some perhaps less surprising, like local levels of deprivation and disability, but some more so, like the number of older people who live in an area.
That this nationwide variation is not new should not excuse the government from action. That it has grown and may well continue to grow as the over-65 population of England outpaces that of all other age groups makes that action more urgent.
But to act well government needs to better understand the problem and how and where this care gap is forming and is at its most extreme. This is what this report, the latest in our Performance Tracker Local series supported by the Nuffield Foundation, seeks to help it do.