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

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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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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

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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:      

  • 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

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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

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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:

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  • Mental Health in Schools
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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

Community Health Bulletin

The latest Community Health Bulletin is ready for you to view at 

https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2024/11/5-november-2024/

In this edition:

  • The state of health care and adult social care in England 2023/24
  • Tackling inequalities faced by minority groups in mental health through the Personalised Care Programme
  • The art of deprescribing: The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines (RCPsych Congress 2024)
  • What makes a good mental health needs assessment, and why does it matter?
  • The OHA Welcomes the House of Lords Report: Recipe for Health
  • Drug-related deaths have risen by record numbers in England and Wales – latest data
  • Plus much more

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Learning Disability& Autism

The latest Learning Disabilities & Autism bulletin is ready for you to view at 

https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability-autism/2024/11/5-november-2024-2/


In this edition:

  • ‘It’s designed for someone who is not me’: A reflexive thematic analysis of the unmet healthcare support needs in UK autistic adults aged 65 years and over
  • Care and choice architecture: Relatives’ support for adults with intellectual disabilities in supported decision-making processes
  • ‘Not a Priority’ highlights crisis in autism assessment and support
  • Webinar Recording: The Impact of Missed Opportunities
  • First-episode psychosis more likely in neurodivergent people
  • ‘Chronic’ DoLS backlogs leaving many without human rights protections, warns CQC
  • Plus much more

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