Younger people in prisons and YOIs more likely to be admitted due to violence or self harm, analysis shows

An analysis by the Nuffield Trust has shown serious challenges remain over the health and care of children in young offender institutions, as well as for younger people in prisons across the country. Missed appointments and admissions relating to violent incidents or self-harm are far more common among younger people in prisons, while support within the system for people with neurodivergent conditions remains a concern, with diagnoses of ADHD associated with higher hospital admissions for violence among young adult males.

Growing up inside (nuffieldtrust.org.uk)

Government plans to create a smokefree generation

The Government has published its proposed actions to tackle smoking and youth vaping and sets out wider measures to support existing smokers to quit smoking.

If you would like to read more on health improvement measures including smoking cessation, please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk and ask for a copy of the latest Make Every Contact Count bulletin.

Stopping the start: our new plan to create a smokefree generation – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Inclusive Health Framework for NHS published

NHS England has published a framework on the role the NHS plays in improving healthcare and how partnerships across sectors such as housing and the voluntary and community sector play a key role in addressing wider determinants of health. Inclusion health is an umbrella term used to describe people who are socially excluded, who typically experience multiple interacting risk factors for poor health, such as stigma, discrimination, poverty, violence, and complex trauma.

NHS England » A national framework for NHS – action on inclusion health

Learning Disabilities and Autism Bulletin

The latest Learning Disabilities and Autism Bulletin produced by the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Evidently Better team is now available. If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

10 October 2023 – Evidently Better

Could focusing on recovery enable workforce ambitions?

In this blog post for the King’s Fund, Dr Sonya Wallbank argues that rather than just focus on occupational health once individuals are too unwell to work, the NHS needs to build an ongoing recovery and support offer that encourages good health and wellbeing among staff and the services they deliver. 

Enabling the workforce plan ambitions by focusing on recovery   | The King’s Fund (kingsfund.org.uk)

Suicide Prevention bulletin

The latest Suicide Prevention bulletin from Mersey Care’s Evidently Better team is now available. If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

Suicide Prevention – Evidently Better

And if you are interested in suicide prevention strategy, take a look at next week’s Lunch and Learn on suicide prevention across LSCFT.