Inpatient mental health

Improvement guide

NHS England

This improvement guide is for staff involved in planning and improving mental healthcare inpatient flow and the discharge of adult patients from mental health settings (including NHS, local authority, housing and other partners). It is part of a wider series of guidance designed to support staff delivering clinical operational improvement initiatives. The guide provides suggestions and exemplars for staff involved in patient flow improvements.

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Library Newsletter

July 2025

Keep up to date with current news and resources in our monthly newsletter. Please get in touch for any support accessing any materials mentioned in this months update: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

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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:      

  • Applying language models for suicide prevention: evaluating news article adherence to WHO reporting guidelines
  • Feasibility and importance of universal suicide screening in a pediatric emergency department
  • Effects of childhood trauma on mental health outcomes, suicide risk factors and stress appraisals in adulthood
  • Use of childhood adversity and mental health admission patterns to predict suicide in young people
  • Domestic violence and suicide in women under the care of mental health services in the UK, 2015–2021: a national observational study
  • Plus much more

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Dementia Bulletin

The latest dementia bulletin from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service has now been published at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/dementia/2025/06/23-june-2025/

In this issue:

  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) rejects Alzheimer’s treatments
  • Effectiveness of cognitive stimulation for individuals with mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  • Identification of core outcomes for quality in routine care provided to people living with dementia in Australia: a multilevel modified Delphi consensus study
  • ARUK and Cure Parkinson’s join forces to find new treatments for people living with Parkinson’s and dementia
  • Plus much more

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Depression & Anxiety Bulletin

The latest Depression & Anxiety Bulletin from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/depression-anxiety/2025/06/24-june-2025/

In this edition:

  • Do We Practice What We Preach? A Mixed Methods Study of Stress in Stress Experts: Implications for Transfer of Awareness and Learning
  • The role of parenting styles and depression in predicting suicidal ideation vulnerability among university students
  • Behavioural activation for low mood and anxiety in male frontline NHS workers (BALM): a pre-post intervention study
  • Beyond the Binary: Understanding the mental health toll of gender non-conformity
  • Plus much more

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Let’s Address Hatred

A systematic review

Written by one of our own colleagues – (Salman Shafiq) the aim of this review is to highlight how hatred can be addressed. Key themes derived include the need for a better understanding of hate, responding appropriately to hate, addressing hatred from different angles utilising tools and resources and actively intervening to address hatred through strategies, inclusion projects or psycho social interventions.

You can read the article here: A Systematic Review on How to Address Hatred in its Various Manifestations: Understand Its Different Aspects, Use Different Tools and Specific Interventions or take a look at a poster which was shared at the Royal College of Psychiatrist International Congress:

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

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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

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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

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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

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