Eating Disorder Bulletin

June 2025

This months bulletin covers a general overview of eating disorder research, along with specific evidence relating to:

-Anorexia Nervosa

-Binge Eating

-ARFID (avoidant restrictive food intake disorder)

-Co-morbidities

-Child/adolescent eating disorder research

Some articles are freely accessible. Others require an Open Athens account to access. Please get in touch with the library; academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk for support accessing full texts.

Learning Disabilities & Autism Bulletin

The latest Learning Disabilities & Autism bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability-autism/2025/06/18-june-2025/


In this edition:

  • Exploring good mental health for people with intellectual disabilities: a qualitative interview study with mental health experts
  • Predictors of Depression and Anxiety Among Self-Medicating Autistic Adults
  • Autism, Diagnostics, and Dementia: A Consensus Report From the 2nd International Summit on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia
  • Do you see me? Improving health for people with learning disabilities
  • Ofsted criticised over training manual linking autistic children to extremism
  • Championing parental support for people with learning disabilities
  • 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

Community Health Bulletin

The latest Community Health Bulletin is ready for you to view at  https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2025/06/17-june-2025/

In this edition:

  • Changes in food and drink purchasing behaviour and the impact on diet and nutrition: 2021 to 2023
  • Commissioner guidance for adult community mental health rehabilitation services
  • Marching through time: Intersections of queer activism and mental wellbeing
  • Building emotionally healthy schools
  • The Reading Agency Launches Reading Well for families Booklist, Addressing Critical Rise in Perinatal Health Needs
  • “Significant gaps” in ADHD research post 2020 hindering development of effective policy
  • Plus much more

Please let us know if there are other people who you think might benefit from receiving this bulletin.

Suicide Prevention & Self Harm Bulletin

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:      

  • Psychological first aid in the intensive care unit
  • Burnout, Mental Health, and Workplace Characteristics: Contributors and Protective Factors Associated With Suicidal Ideation in High‐Risk Nurses
  • Predictors of sleep modifiable factors and the correlation with non-suicidal self-injury: the important role of problematic mobile phone use and mental health
  • Differentiating Individual Characteristics Associated with Suicidal Ideations, Plans, and Attempts among low-Income Veterans
  • Plus much more

Please let me know if there are any other colleagues who you think might benefit from receiving this bulletin

Staying Safe from Suicide

Guidance into Practice Webinar

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 9:30am to 11am 

In April 2025. NHS England published essential guidance to support reduction in suicide, a government commitment.

The guidance, aimed at all mental health practitioners in England, sets out that a focus on suicide “risk prediction” is flawed, and that this guidance’s alterative approach based on formulation and safety management will save lives.

This webinar will take you briefly through the guidance [Staying safe from suicide: Best practice guidance for safety assessment, formulation and management] and importantly will support you in implementing it in your own organisation and work. 

The webinar is free to attend and is open to NHS, private and charity sectors, as the guidance applies to all.  ‘Staying Safe from Suicide’ is based on the latest research and was written in conjunction with people with lived experience.

When you attend you will hear from:

  • front line practitioners who have already embedded this guidance
  • people with lived experience
  • colleagues who are developing our Staying Safe from Suicide E-Learning training tools.

No registration is required. Please add the event and joining link to your calendar.

Impact of young people’s admissions to adult mental health wards in England: national qualitative study

National policy in England recommends that young people be admitted to mental health wards that are age-appropriate. Despite this, young people continue to be admitted to adult wards. Our findings emphasise the importance of young people being admitted to age-appropriate in-patient facilities. Earlier intervention and increased provision of specialist care in the community could prevent young people’s admissions to adult wards.

Impact of young people’s admissions to adult mental health wards in England: national qualitative study | BJPsych Open | Cambridge Core

Learning Disabilities & Autism Bulletin

The latest Learning Disabilities & Autism bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability-autism/2025/06/4-june-2025-2/


In this edition:

  • The association between cardiorespiratory fitness and resting‐state functional connectivity in adults with Down syndrome
  • The influence of indoor temperature and noise on autistic individuals
  • Atypical antipsychotics for autism spectrum disorder: a network meta‐analysis
  • Cast no shadow: how common are psychiatric conditions among people with intellectual disability?
  • Get me to hospital: When and how to use the Mental Capacity Act to convey a person to hospital for physical health treatment
  • New report on commercial sexual exploitation of women with learning disabilities
  • 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

Adult ADHD assessments and diagnosis: data and service provision

King’s Fund Report

Adult ADHD assessment services in the UK face inconsistent data collection, hindering national planning. Standardised data is essential to improving waiting times, service delivery and outcomes.

Adult ADHD Assessments And Diagnosis: Data And Service Provision | The King’s Fund

Current Awareness Bulletins

The latest version of the current awareness bulletin is now available.

NHS England have a new online form to subscribe to their bulletins: KLS Technology bulletin & Technology Update 

James Padget has reduced frequency of their Autism Spectrum Disorder Bulletin to twice a year.  And Botulinum toxin for spasticity in adults

by York & Scarborough is now biannual.

A fond farewell to Long Term Conditions Bulletin by York & Scarborough,

Dartford & Grasham has launch a new Legalised Assisted Dying Bulletin, contact christine.williams60@nhs.net to sign up.

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust have really gone for it this time with a raft of new KnowledgeShare based monthly bulletins (Well done):

Contact emily.cieciura@uhd.nhs.uk for:

  • Dietetics
  • Elderly Medicine
  • Mental Health in Schools
  • Neurodiversity
  • Neurology
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Paediatrics
  • Physiotherapy
  • Project Management
  • Speech and Language Therapy
  • Suicide Prevention

Contact richard.daly@uhd.nhs.uk for:

  • Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT)
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Innovation
  • IT & AI
  • Leadership
  • Oncology
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  • Pain
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  • Wellbeing

Contact barbara.peirce@uhd.nhs.uk for:

  • Armed ForcesBiochemistry
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Contact library@uhd.nhs.uk for:

  • Alcoholism Bulletin
  • Anaesthetics Bulletin
  • Auditory Bulletin
  • Continence Bulletin
  • Diversity and Inclusion Bulletin
  • General Surgery Bulletin
  • Ophthalmology
  • Podiatry Bulletin
  • Smoke Free Bulletin
  • Stroke
  • Substance Misuse Bulletin
  • Wound Care Bulletin

Dementia Bulletin

The latest dementia bulletin has now been published at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/dementia/2025/06/9-june-2025/

In this issue:

  • What are the effects of music‐based therapeutic interventions for adults with dementia?
  • Cold sore viral infection implicated in development of Alzheimer’s disease
  • Improving early dementia diagnosis: the READ-OUT study
  • Qualitative study exploring knowledge and attitudes towards dementia risk prediction, barriers to dementia services and service improvement recommendations with diverse populations in England
  • Cost-consequence analysis of an e-health intervention to reduce distress in dementia carers: results from the iSupport randomised controlled trial
  • Plus much more