New Learning Disabilities Bulletin


Welcome to the new Learning Disabilities Bulletin!

To ensure that you continue to receive the appropriate bulletin(s) please complete this very brief form LD + ND Mailing lists – Fill in this form

The latest Learning Disabilities Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability/2026/07/1-july-2026-2/


In this edition:

  • Psychopathology from childhood to adolescence in children with and without Mild Intellectual Disability (MID): a comparison across three MID operationalizations
  • Muckamore Abbey Hospital Inquiry Report Published
  • Falling nurse numbers leave people with learning disabilities behind
  • Lived Experience of Pica: a parent and sister’s perspective
  • New three-year learning disabilities and autism plan to “transform” support
  • What four things are carers telling us about health and social care?
  • Plus much more

CYPMH Evidence Based Bulletin- May

Please find the Children and Young People’s Mental Health (CYPMH) evidence based bulletin attached. We hope this helps to keep you up to date with current awareness within your department. Please feel free to share and disseminate with colleagues. Some evidence is freely available, others require an Open Athens account to access. Please get in touch with the Library team should you need any support accessing the material.

You can also find the link to this bulletin here: CYPMH Evidence Based bulletin May 2026.pdf

If you need any further help or support regarding embedding evidence into your practice, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Latest Depression and Anxiety Bulletin

Dear all,

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/2026/05/26-may-2026/

In this edition:

  • Government to transform mental health care with new strategy
  • UK’s ‘anxious generation’ of young people struggling to adapt to workplace
  • Half a million children attended A&E in mental health crisis, as RCN calls for wider roll-out of mental health A&Es and for action on social determinants
  • Ethnic minority carers’ experiences of in-patient mental healthcare: qualitative study
  • Plus much more

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

Current Awareness Bulletin Adult Mental Health May 2026

Dear all,

A copy of the latest Adult Mental Health current awareness bulletin from Library and Knowledge Services is now available.

Adult Mental Health Bulletin May 2026.docx

We appreciate your thoughts on how this update has impacted your practice. Please take a moment to complete this survey.

Your feedback is highly valued.

To view the full abstracts, click on the link in the article titles. If you have any problems accessing any of the articles contact the library: library.enquiries@cntw.nhs.uk, and we’ll sort a copy out for you.

If you would like to receive any of our other bulletins, please contact the library enquiries email address:

  • Dementia and Old Age Psychiatry
  • Adult mental health
  • Neurorehabilitation and neuropsychiatry
  • Physical health in mental health
  • Learning disabilities
  • Forensic and secure mental health services
  • Family therapy update
  • Innovation and improvement update

I hope you find the contents useful.

Eating Disorder Bulletin – May 2026

Dear all,

Please find the May Eating Disorder attached. We hope this helps to keep you up to date with current awareness in this area of clinical work. Some articles are freely accessible, others require access to Open Athens. You can create a free account here: OpenAthens | Registration or get back in touch with the library for any further support regarding accessibility to articles.

http://www.lihnnhs.info/lancashirecarelibraryblog/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Eating-Disorder-Bulletin-May-2026.pdf

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Adult Aphasia, Dysarthria and Dysphagia: June 2026

Dear all,

New training via MS Teams available from the Academy Library:

Some articles are accessible with an OpenAthens username and password. To register for this please visit https://openathens.nice.org.uk/ (it is best to use an NHS PC to do this)

If you are unable to access any of the full references and work for RUH or our partner organisations, please let us know and we will source them for you.

Adult aphasia dysphagia dysarthria June 2026.docx by Academic Library

Latest Learning Disabilities Bulletin

Dear all,

Welcome to the new Learning Disabilities Bulletin!

To ensure that you continue to receive the appropriate bulletin(s) please complete this very brief form LD + ND Mailing lists – Fill in this form

The latest Learning Disabilities Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability/2026/06/16-june-2026-3/


In this edition:

  • Changes to the definition of deprivation of liberty
  • Supporting SEND reform: developing the Experts at Hand offer
  • Looking into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism (easy read)
  • Attachment and caregiving in families with parental learning disabilities
  • Nearly half of UK employers fear getting it wrong when employing people with learning disabilities
  • New scheme to strengthen the future of learning disability nursing
  • Plus much more

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

Thank you

Eating Disorders Bulletin: June 2026

Dear All,

Please find the June bulletin for Eating Disorders attached. We hope this helps to keep you up to date with current awareness in this area of clinical work. Some articles are freely accessible, others require access to Open Athens. You can create a free account here: OpenAthens | Registration or get back in touch with the library for any further support regarding accessibility to articles.

For any further support regarding evidence based practice, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Eating Disorder Bulletin – June 2026 .pdf by Academic Library

Inclusion Bulletin (April 2026)

Dear all,

Please click on the link below for the latest forwarded Inclusion current awareness bulletin from the Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Knowledge and Library Service. Full credit to their team. 

Inclusion Bulletin (April 2026).pdf

Please use the links provided in the bulletin. Some articles are Open Access and can be downloaded directly. Others may require you to sign in with your GMMH OpenAthens account. In some cases, only an abstract is available and if you need the full text, please request it from our GMMH Library by replying to this email. 

If you do not already have a GMMH OpenAthens account, you can self‑register via the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub: https://www.library.nhs.uk/GMMH. Brief guides to registering and using the Hub are attached. 

Please email all library enquires to library@gmmh.nhs.uk

Suicide Prevention & Self Harm Bulletin

Dear all,

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:  
   

  • Self-Care Is … A Qualitative Characterization of Self-Care Among Individuals Engaged in Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
  • Automating thematic review of prevention of future deaths reports: concordance study of a child-suicide analysis using large language models
  • Perpetration of intimate partner violence and suicide attempt, suicidal ideation, and non-suicidal self-harm: a cross-sectional secondary analysis using the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey
  • Plus much more

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