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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

Please let me know if there are any other colleagues who you think might benefit from receiving this bulletin

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

Please let me know if you think there are other colleagues who would benefit from receiving this bulletin and I will add them to the mailing list.

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

Please let us know if there are other people who you think might benefit from receiving this bulletin.

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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Thank you

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

Please let us know if there are other people who you think might benefit from receiving this bulletin.

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

Please let me know if there are any other colleagues who you think might benefit from receiving this bulletin

Learning Disabilities & Autism Bulletin

The latest Learning Disabilities & Autism bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability-autism/2025/06/4-june-2025-2/


In this edition:

  • The association between cardiorespiratory fitness and resting‐state functional connectivity in adults with Down syndrome
  • The influence of indoor temperature and noise on autistic individuals
  • Atypical antipsychotics for autism spectrum disorder: a network meta‐analysis
  • Cast no shadow: how common are psychiatric conditions among people with intellectual disability?
  • Get me to hospital: When and how to use the Mental Capacity Act to convey a person to hospital for physical health treatment
  • New report on commercial sexual exploitation of women with learning disabilities
  • Plus much more

Please let me know if you think there are other people who would benefit from receiving this and I will add them to the mailing list.

Thank you

Current Awareness Bulletins

The latest version of the current awareness bulletin is now available.

NHS England have a new online form to subscribe to their bulletins: KLS Technology bulletin & Technology Update 

James Padget has reduced frequency of their Autism Spectrum Disorder Bulletin to twice a year.  And Botulinum toxin for spasticity in adults

by York & Scarborough is now biannual.

A fond farewell to Long Term Conditions Bulletin by York & Scarborough,

Dartford & Grasham has launch a new Legalised Assisted Dying Bulletin, contact christine.williams60@nhs.net to sign up.

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust have really gone for it this time with a raft of new KnowledgeShare based monthly bulletins (Well done):

Contact emily.cieciura@uhd.nhs.uk for:

  • Dietetics
  • Elderly Medicine
  • Mental Health in Schools
  • Neurodiversity
  • Neurology
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Paediatrics
  • Physiotherapy
  • Project Management
  • Speech and Language Therapy
  • Suicide Prevention

Contact richard.daly@uhd.nhs.uk for:

  • Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT)
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Innovation
  • IT & AI
  • Leadership
  • Oncology
  • Oral Maxillofacial
  • Palliative Care
  • Pain
  • Staff Wellbeing
  • Trauma & Orthopaedics
  • Wellbeing

Contact barbara.peirce@uhd.nhs.uk for:

  • Armed ForcesBiochemistry
  • CAHMS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services)
  • Gynaecology
  • Haematology
  • Histology
  • Maternity
  • Microbiology
  • Neonatal
  • Psychology
  • Radiology
  • Respiratory
  • Urology

Contact library@uhd.nhs.uk for:

  • Alcoholism Bulletin
  • Anaesthetics Bulletin
  • Auditory Bulletin
  • Continence Bulletin
  • Diversity and Inclusion Bulletin
  • General Surgery Bulletin
  • Ophthalmology
  • Podiatry Bulletin
  • Smoke Free Bulletin
  • Stroke
  • Substance Misuse Bulletin
  • Wound Care Bulletin

Dementia Bulletin

The latest dementia bulletin has now been published at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/dementia/2025/06/9-june-2025/

In this issue:

  • What are the effects of music‐based therapeutic interventions for adults with dementia?
  • Cold sore viral infection implicated in development of Alzheimer’s disease
  • Improving early dementia diagnosis: the READ-OUT study
  • Qualitative study exploring knowledge and attitudes towards dementia risk prediction, barriers to dementia services and service improvement recommendations with diverse populations in England
  • Cost-consequence analysis of an e-health intervention to reduce distress in dementia carers: results from the iSupport randomised controlled trial
  • Plus much more