Public Health England, August 2019
This report provides updates of national statistics about people with learning disabilities in England and the services and support available to them and their families.
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BJPsych Advances – September 2019
The September edition of BJPsych Advances has been published. This issue includes a guide to e-cigarettes and vaping for mental health clinicians, articles on dissociative identity disorder, and a series of articles on the psychosis risk timeline.
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Tackling loneliness: (Briefing Paper number 8514)
House of Commons Library, August 2019
The government’s Loneliness Strategy was published in October 2018. It set out a wide variety of cross-departmental measures that the government would take to provide ‘national leadership’ to tackle loneliness in England. This briefing: explains the Strategy; the steps taken so far by the government; looks at research into the causes and impact of loneliness and possible interventions; and briefly outlines the situation in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The briefing is accompanied by a reading list. The latest official figures suggest that just under half of adults in England experience loneliness occasionally or more often. The proportion of adults reporting that they often or always feel lonely (6%) shows little variation by gender or by region, but the data does suggest that younger people are more likely to report feeling frequently lonely. Certain groups are also associated with an increased risk of loneliness, such as those with a longterm disability, widowed homeowners, unmarried middle-agers, and young renters. Studies have found links between loneliness (or social isolation) and poorer health outcomes, such as early death, higher rates of depression and cognitive decline. This may lead to higher costs in the public and private sector due to greater service usage, absences and productivity losses.
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Library bulletins – August 2019
The Gosall Library, August 2019
This week’s Library bulletins are on Community Health and Dementia.
Valuing Admin Staff
NHS Employers, August 2019
This case study from Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust sets out its approach to increasing staff experience and engagement for admin staff. The trust did this through running a celebratory event aimed at admin and non-regulated staff in 2017 to demonstrate to its admin staff how much they are appreciated and valued, and to seek feedback from this important staff group on the benefits for working for the Trust.
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Options for members of the NHS Pension Scheme affected by the annual allowance
NHS Employers, August 2019
This short guide is designed to help raise awareness of the options available to members of the NHS Pension Scheme affected by the annual allowance. The annual allowance is the amount of pension savings an individual can make in one year without paying tax.
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Mental health trusts work in partnership to support people affected by eating disorders
NHS England, August 2019
This case study show how CONNECT, a regional service in Yorkshire aimed at improving care for adults with eating disorders, worked in partnerships to better support people with mental health issues. The CONNECT Service offers a variety of treatment options based on a person’s needs including early intervention, home-based treatment or inpatient treatment.
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The macroeconomic impact of government innovation policies: A quantitative assessment
University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, August 2019
This report was funded by Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, for a research project undertaken by the IIPP and UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. It introduces a new theoretical framework for understanding the links between fiscal policy and innovation, arguing that ‘mission-oriented’ innovation policy, which focuses on concrete societal problems that can only be solved by multiple sectors interacting in new ways, can generate very large economic returns—so called ‘supermultiplier’ impacts.
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Library bulletins
The Gosall Library, August 2019
This week’s Library bulletins are on Learning Disabilities and Dementia.
It takes leaders to break down siloes: Integrating services for disabled children –
Council for Disabled Children, July 2019
Over the past decade, successive governments have brought in a range of legislation, policies and programmes in an attempt to deliver on a vision of coordinated, person-centred care and better outcomes for children and young people with SEND. However, despite this visible drive towards integration, services for children with SEND remain fragmented. The reality of integrated working between different services and agencies, such as NHS and local authority services, children’s and adults’ services and specialist and universal services, is challenging. The report identifies key factors that are helping and hindering the integration of services around special education needs and disability (SEND). The report finds that:
- • The system of disabled children’s services, nationally and locally, is highly complex and fragmented. Those who work in it face multiple practical barriers to integration.
- Leadership is the most important factor in enabling or hindering integration; service leaders play a pivotal role in uniting agencies around a whole-system approach to SEND and wider vulnerable children’s services.
- Good quality population data is vital to developing a whole-system approach, and the measurement of shared outcomes.
- Local Areas’ efforts to integrate services in the complex SEND system must be part of a wider strategic vision
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