Community – Lancashire & South Cumbria Library Blog

by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

A big thanks to our co-workers over at Mersey Care!

In this edition:

10 Year Capital Plan to rebuild NHS and bring care closer to home
Mental health personalised care framework: the modern care programme approach
New UK CMO activity guidelines show every movement counts
One in five women attend A&E in the year after giving birth, with stark inequalities rooted long before pregnancy
Impact of drug and alcohol treatment on reoffending
Children’s Mental Health: Listen Up! Understanding psychosis in children and young people
Plus much more

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Community Health Bulletin

Dear all,

The latest Community Health Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2026/02/11-february-2026/

In this edition:

Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2024/25
Substance misuse treatment in secure settings: 2024 to 2025
Co-regulation: advice for coping with our children’s – and our own – big emotions
What if the ‘nanny state’ is exactly what our health needs?
Designed for life? Why mental health services need a radical redesign of their physical fabric
New fund to tackle cancer screening inequalities and save lives
Plus much more

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

Thank you

Guidance on good quality specialist community psychology services for people with learning disabilities.
British Psychological Society (BPS); 2025.
https://explore.bps.org.uk/content/report-guideline/bpsrep.2025.rep191
[This guidance says what good community psychology services should look like for adults with
learning disabilities. It’s designed to help psychologists and other professionals, service providers and commissioners. It may also help people with learning disabilities and their families and carers if they need to know what should be in psychology services.]
Freely available online

NIHR helping health and social care delivery adapt to climate change

UK News

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has awarded almost £700,000 to seven research projects aimed at helping UK health and social care services adapt to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather. The funding supports early‑stage development work focused on strengthening climate resilience across care systems, including improving preparedness for extreme heat, floods and storm surges, which increasingly disrupt hospitals, care homes, community services and access to essential facilities.

The projects will build research capacity, develop stronger partnerships between academics and health/social care professionals, and identify evidence gaps around how extreme weather affects infrastructure, staffing and service delivery—particularly for vulnerable populations. Each project can receive up to £100,000 and may progress to larger NIHR Climate Change and Health Research Collaboration Awards, offering up to £2 million for programme‑level research.

Overall, the initiative represents a major long‑term investment by NIHR and the Department of Health and Social Care to embed climate resilience into the future of UK health and social care. [nationalhe…cutive.com]

NIHR helping health and social care delivery adapt to climate change | UK Healthcare News

Impact of young people’s admissions to adult mental health wards in England: national qualitative study

National policy in England recommends that young people be admitted to mental health wards that are age-appropriate. Despite this, young people continue to be admitted to adult wards. Our findings emphasise the importance of young people being admitted to age-appropriate in-patient facilities. Earlier intervention and increased provision of specialist care in the community could prevent young people’s admissions to adult wards.

Impact of young people’s admissions to adult mental health wards in England: national qualitative study | BJPsych Open | Cambridge Core

Muslim leaders’ views on mental health disorders

An overview from one of the Trust’s Consultant Psychiatrists

Shafiq (UK) Muslim leaders’ views on mental health disorders: focus group. GlobalPsychiatryArchives

Salman Shafiq (LSCFT) shares the outcome of his research paper and key themes identified within his research. Learn about the focused group discussion among religious leaders and some members of South Asian community.

Watch the short clip above or read the article here:

Views of British South Asian Muslim leaders on mental health: a focus group study

A community-powered NHS

Making prevention a reality

Source: The King’s Fund

This report finds that by moving towards community-powered health –working collaboratively with communities as equal partners in the design and delivery of health care – can help make prevention a reality, protect the NHS’s future and improve health for all.

Library Bulletin

Community mental health services

The June bulletin for Community mental health services, produced by Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust, are now available to view and download.

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