Mental Health

Current Awareness Updates

Advancing mental health equalities strategy.
NHS England; 2020.
[This strategy summarises the core actions that we all need to take to bridge the gaps for communities fairing worse than others in mental health services. It is also an important element of the overall NHS plans to accelerate action to address health inequalities in the next stage of responding to COVID-19.]

Children and young people’s mental health review: findings from a questionnaire to health and wellbeing boards on local actions.
Care Quality Commission (CQC); 2020.
[Follow up of a 2018 review looking at the quality of, and access to, mental health services for children and young people. It sets out the findings of a 2019 independent follow-up self-assessment questionnaire, to find out the extent to which health and wellbeing board areas in England had progressed with implementing the local recommendations made.]

Mental health rehabilitation inpatient services: 2019 update.
Care Quality Commission (CQC); 2020.
[Updated findings from 114 mental health rehabilitation inpatient providers about patients that were occupying a mental health bed at the time of the information request. Questions included number of beds, current number of patients and their distance from home, funding and number of locked wards.]

Assessment of mental health services in acute trusts.
Care Quality Commission (CQC); 2020.
[Findings from over 100 acute hospital inspections, how well the mental health care needs of patients were met and where trusts, and the wider system, need to improve.]

MeeTwo mental health app: case study.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; 2020.
[The app provides safe, fully-moderated peer support to 40,000 young people aged 11 to 25 across the UK. The free app enables users to anonymously share their feelings and help each other in a safe, moderated digital environment. Peer support has been shown to improve quality of life, wellbeing, self-esteem and social functioning, as well as reductions in hospital admission rates and use of hospital emergency services.]

Podcast

Why are people from ethnic minorities disproportionately affected by Covid-19?

Black people are two to three times more likely to have been diagnosed with Covid-19 compared to white people, after adjusting for age. But what is causing this shocking disparity and how does systemic racism play a role? 

In this podcast, Helen McKenna sits down with Natalie Creary, Programme Delivery Director at Black Thrive, and James Nazroo, Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.

King’s Fund Podcast

To listen to the Podcast, click the image above.

EBSCO App

Including CINAHL Complete

Want a one-stop shop way of accessing the Library on your Smartphone? Download the NEW & FREE EBSCO Mobile App and access via your Open Athens account to your Library’s resources on the move, either onsite or off premises! Including CINAHL for Allied Health & Nursing, MEDLINE & Psychology & Behavioural Science Collection, you’ll have access to over 2,350 active, full-text journals!

For a Quick Start Guide on using the new EBSCO app please see – https://bit.ly/3eV43In

Long Covid

Evidence, recommendations and priority research questions

Long Covid: evidence, recommendations and priority research questions.
House of Lords; 2020.

[Written evidence from the House of Lords’ COVID-19 Committee: Life beyond COVID Inquiry. “Long Covid is a distinct condition affecting approximately 60,000 people in the UK … Clinical guidance and local protocols for long Covid are currently highly variable. This is likely to be contributing to the patient experience of inconsistent and fragmented care.” The paper recommends that a 4-tier clinical service be developed.]

Public Health

Current Awareness

Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE); 2020.
[This guideline covers interventions that use a digital or mobile platform to help people eat more healthily, become more active, stop smoking, reduce their alcohol intake or practise safer sex. The interventions include those delivered by text message, apps, wearable devices or the internet. The guideline only includes those that are delivered by the technology itself and not by healthcare professionals using technology to deliver interventions.]

The association between parental supply of alcohol and supply from other sources to young people: a prospective cohort.
Addiction; 2020.
[Despite legal age limits set for alcohol consumption, parents are one of the main suppliers of alcohol to underage minors. This study investigated the associations between parental supply of sips and whole serves of alcohol on subsequent other supply, conditional on current supply from non-parental sources.]

Reducing parental conflict: Outcomes framework.
Early Intervention Foundation (EIF); 2020.
[This outcomes framework highlights what risk factors can influence interparental conflict and, ultimately, affect child outcomes. The risk factors fall into three categories – relating to individual parents, the parental relationship, and the family or economic circumstances – which in turn are associated with the central risk, of children being exposed to harmful conflict between parents. The outcomes fall into four categories: social & emotional, physical, cognitive, and behavioural.]

Alcohol Awareness Week is taking place on 16th-22nd November
The week will focus on raising awareness of the link between alcohol and mental health, as drinking too much or too often can mask or enhance underlying mental health problems. You can get involved and download free digital resources from their website.

Best start in speech, language and communication.
Public Health England (PHE); 2020.
[Guidance to improve speech, language and communication (SLC) in the early years. The main guidance document supports local areas to develop a whole-systems approach to reducing inequalities in SLC. This document is accompanied by supporting evidence and case studies of good practice from local areas.]

State of Care

CQC annual assessment of health and social care

State of Care 2019/20.
Care Quality Commission (CQC); 2020.
[CQC annual assessment of health care and social care in England. The report looks at the trends, shares examples of good and outstanding care, and highlights where care needs to improve. It describes the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, including the unequal impact, DOLS and innovation.]

Gosall Library

Wellbeing books

Now more than ever, we need to look after our wellbeing and take time to ourselves. We know that the new lockdown may have caused additional stress, worries or anxieties. We have a great range of welbeing and stress relief books to help you throughout the next month and beyond.

To take a look at our library catalogue click here. If you have any book requests please email academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk and keep an eye on our Twitter account for active book polls.

The self service machine will remain in operation throughout lockdown or we can send books out to you at your place at work.