Forensic Psychiatry Bulletin available

The latest forensic psychiatry bulletin produced by the library team at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is now available. if you are unable to access any of the articles included please contact academic.library @lscft.nhs.uk.

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What can the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector offer to support provider collaboratives?

Voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations are in a unique position to support provider collaboratives and bring innovation, expertise, experience and resources to the organisations they work with, work by the NHS Confederation has found.

The NHS Confederation carried out research speaking to a wide range of provider collaboratives and VCSEs about their experiences of working together, across all stages of the journey in order to better understand the way VCSE organisations are working with provider collaboratives.

Exploring and understanding the VCSE sector in provider collaboratives | NHS Confederation

Dementia awareness bulletin available

The latest Dementia Awareness bulletin, produced by the Evidently Better team at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, is now available. If you are unable to access any of the articles included please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

https://www.evidentlybetter.org/dementia/2023/08/23-august-2023/

How can people with mental health difficulties best have their social needs supported?http://www.lihnnhs.info/lancashirecarelibraryblog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CentreforMH_Briefing61SocialNeeds.pdf

A briefing by the NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit (MHPRU) at University College London (UCL) and King’s College London (KCL) finds that Individual Placement and Support employment services and Housing First support for homeless people both have robust evidence of their effectiveness in supporting people with mental health difficulties into work and homes respectively. There is also clear evidence that social security policies have a major impact on people with mental health difficulties: policies that restrict access to benefits or reduce entitlements worsen people’s mental health and vice versa.

Perinatal mental health roadmap published

The Royal College of Midwives has published a roadmap to ensure women receive the support they need and to improve perinatal mental health care in the UK.

Among the key changes the RCM is calling for to improve perinatal mental health care in the UK are:

  • All professionals working with women in the perinatal period have the necessary knowledge and understanding of perinatal mental health.
  • Every maternity service has a minimum whole-time equivalent Band 7 perinatal specialist midwife.
  • All maternity professionals should be equally concerned with mental as well as physical health in pregnancy, childbirth, and postnatal period.

Workforce plan analysis suggests number of students training to be clinicians needs to increase by 50 per cent

Health Foundation analysis of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan commitments suggests the proportion of first-year higher education students training to be NHS clinical professionals would need to increase by 50 per cent. Based on current trends, this would mean that students training to be NHS clinical professionals would make up around 1 in 6 of all first-year students in 2031/32, up from 1 in 9 in 2022/23.  

How feasible are the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan commitments on training? – The Health Foundation