Saving and improving lives

The future of UK clinical research delivery

Source: The King’s Fund Health Management and Policy Alert

This policy document outlines the government’s vision to unleash the full potential of clinical research delivery to tackle health inequalities, bolster economic recovery and improve the lives of people across the UK.

The future of clinical research delivery sets out the vision for a more patient-centred, pro-innovation and digitally-enabled clinical research environment, which builds on the successes and the lessons we have learned in response to COVID-19 and harnesses the UK’s potential to capitalise on cutting-edge innovations across all treatments and technologies, all phases of research and all conditions.

Their vision puts clinical research delivery front and centre of our plans to build back better so we can tackle the healthcare challenges of the future and patients across the UK and around the world benefit from better health outcomes.

The 5 key themes underpinning the vision are:

  • clinical research embedded in the NHS
  • patient-centred research
  • streamlined, efficient and innovative research
  • research enabled by data and digital tools
  • a sustainable and supported research workforce

The goal is to create a clinical research delivery ecosystem which will shape the future of healthcare and improve people’s lives for years to come.

Library Bulletin

Mental Illness and Primary Care

The mental illness and primary care current awareness bulletin, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download.

Mental-health-and-Primary-Care-Bulletin-March-2021Download

For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletin please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Toolkit

Remote working for general practices and primary care networks

Source: The King’s Fund

This toolkit is aimed at leaders in general practice. That doesn’t just mean GPs or partners, but all staff in the position of supporting others and making change. It provides insight, tips and guidance for getting the best out of the increasing options for teams to work separately from each other and at different locations, with colleagues simultaneously at home, in the practice, and elsewhere.

It provides support to answer the following questions:

State of health and care

The NHS long-term plan after Covid-19

Source: The King’s Fund Health Management and Policy Alert

After a decade of austerity, the NHS long-term plan was meant to be a turning point for health care. However, those plans have been severely disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. This analysis shows the scale of the damage done by the pandemic across several major health conditions. It recommends a package of six ambitious changes to ‘build back better’.

Library Bulletin

Community Mental Health Services

The new edition of Community Mental Health Services Current Awareness Bulletin, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, is now available to view and download.

NCBI-Community-mental-health-services-Bulletin-March-2021Download

Server Outage

Disruptions expected at the Lantern Centre Friday 26th March 2021

For those people who intend to work at the Lantern Centre today – including the Gosall Library, please be aware that IT are undertaking work on the server in the comms room at the Lantern Centre on Friday 26th March from 8.30 am – 10.30am.

Please note: this will mean that all devices connected to the trust server will be offline during this time, including PC’s, laptops, phones, printers, WiFi and any other devices connected to the LSCFT network .

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience.

Public Health

Current Awareness Updates

Increased inequalities and barriers to healthy eating and exercise during lockdown for those with obesity.
Carried out by Frankie Marcelline from Brighton and Sussex on 8/3/2021
https://www.knowledgeshare.nhs.uk/index.php?PageID=literature_search_request_download&RequestID=27968
(This evidence search report includes studies and reports on barriers to healthy eating and exercise that people have faced during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in the UK. People with obesity in particular may have poorer mental health and are at higher risk of additional challenges during this lockdown as they are likely to be isolating and find it harder to exercise or eat well. Also includes results focused on what support is required for people with obesity in the post-Covid recovery.)

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy – debunking the myths using a community engagement approach underpinned by NICE guidance.
NICE Shared Learning Database; 2021.

(Shared learning case study. This example describes how GPs from Black Women in Health (BWIH) reduced COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy amongst the BAME population by debunking the myths about COVID-19 vaccines by organising webinars, virtual group talks, podcasts, videos in other languages and dialects. The approach to community engagement was informed by recommendations from NICE’s guidance for Community engagement: improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities.)

The NHS’s role in tackling poverty: awareness, action and advocacy The King’s Fund

(One of the main drivers behind the creation of the NHS was to protect the poorest in society from being bankrupted by the need to pay for care. But the NHS can do more to mitigate, prevent and reduce poverty. This report sets out what the NHS, as the largest economic institution in the country, needs to maximise its contribution to tackling poverty, within its resources and with its partners.)

COVID-19: guidance on supporting children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing – GOV.UK

(Advice for parents and carers on looking after the mental health and wellbeing of children or young people during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.)