NHS Employers, February 2019
This infographic shows the additional options that are available to complement traditional training and recruitment routes.This resource can help employers to identify and consider additional routes that can be used to:
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NHS Staff and Learners’ Mental Wellbeing Commission, February 2019
This report sets out the findings of the NHS Staff and Learners’ Mental Wellbeing Commission. The Commission aimed to discover and review evidence of good practice where the mental health and wellbeing of staff and learners in NHS organisations has been made an organisational priority. The Commission has examined successful interventions from around the country, to identify what has worked well and what could be adopted widely.
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Mental Health Foundation, February 2019
This guide provides advice to parents, carers and teachers on how to talk to children about internet use to help minimise the negative impact on children, while encouraging healthy internet use to maximise the benefits.
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Department of Health and Social Care, February 2019
This report outlines the UK Chief Medical Officers’ (CMO) commentary on research that was done on screen-based activities and children and young people’s mental health and psychosocial wellbeing. The report includes their advice for parents and carers, and their recommendations for other stakeholders.
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NHS Improvement, February 2019
This guidance provides an evidence-based national framework to guide action on improvement skill-building, leadership development and talent management for people in NHS-funded roles.
The framework focuses on helping NHS and social care staff to develop four critical capabilities:
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The March edition of BJPsych Advances has been published. This issue includes articles on terrorism and mental illness, predatory journals and publishers, and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder.
Click here to view the table of contents. Login with your LCFT OpenAthens account to view the full text articles.
Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute, February 2019
This report looks at the different ways NHS staff are getting involved in the research process including designing studies, collecting data, and disseminating and implementing research findings. It also looks at how staff involvement in research could be improved and describes some of the barriers to active involvement, from lack funding and support through to a tendency for research opportunities to be offered to certain healthcare professions and specialties.
Click here to view the report.
This week’s Library bulletins are on Depression and Suicide Prevention.
NHS England, February 2019
Personalised Care will benefit up to 2.5 million people by 2024, giving them the same choice and control over their mental and physical health that they have come to expect in every other aspect of their life. This document confirms how personalised care will be rolled out across England by 2023/24.
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Royal Pharmaceutical Society, February 2019
This guidance is for pharmacists and all healthcare organisations involved with medicine and provides a summary of the scale and complexity of the issue of polypharmacy. The guidance outlines how healthcare professionals, patients and carers can find solutions when polypharmacy causes problems for patients and points to useful resources that can help. The guidance recommends that all healthcare organisations have systems in place to ensure people taking 10 or more medicines can be identified and highlighted as requiring a comprehensive medication review with a pharmacist.
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