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Community Health Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

All credit goes to our co-workers over at Mersey Care.

In this edition:

  • Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: final
  • No wrong door? A review
  • What is the sepsis Modern Service Framework?
  • What are community health services?
  • The circumstances you grow up in are linked to how long you live
  • More than four in five patients unsure who to turn to in NHS care, warns RCGP
  • Plus much more
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20 October 2026 – Evidently Better

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Community Health Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

All credit for this bulletin goes to our co-workers over at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

In this edition:

  • Safeguarding children affected by a parent’s alcohol or drug use
  • Learning from national patient experience surveys: qualitative insights across care pathways
  • Understanding local provision for Black maternal mental health
  • What does the Prime Minister mean by a National Care Service?
  • Overprescribing can take a toll on older peoples’ health and independence – here’s what can be done
  • Cannabis use linked to higher risk of violence, major review finds
  • Plus much more

7 October 2026 – Evidently Better

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Addiction in the UK.

The Forward Trust; 2026.

[This report aims to inform the national conversation on addiction – it collates data and analysis of the levels of addiction in our society, the associated harms, and our experience so far with policies and programmes introduced in response.]
Freely available online

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Community Health Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

credit to our co-workers over at Mersey Care for making this bulletin.

In this edition:

  • Smoking and vaping: guidance, policy and regulation
  • Healthy childhoods: shared responsibility for growing up well
  • Fighting Misinformation in the AI SEO era
  • What happens to strength, balance, stamina and reflexes as you age – and what you can do about it
  • NHS urges those eligible to book a flu jab ahead of this winter season
  • Study examines how remote mental health care is working in practice
  • Plus much more

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Update – helping people stay happy, healthy and independent: An update on the briefing from 2019.

Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA); 2026.

https://www.hfma.org.uk/publications/update-helping-people-stay-happy-healthy-and-independent
[This briefing outlines how community services remain central to delivering the NHS’s three strategic shifts — from hospital to community, treatment to prevention, and analogue to digital — by helping people stay healthy, independent and connected while reducing avoidable pressure on acute services.]
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Community Health Bulletin

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

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Thank you

Community Health Bulletin

Dear all,

The latest Community Health Bulletin is ready for you to view at  https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2026/02/25-february-2026/

In this edition:

  • Community Mental Health Survey 2024: national qualitative report
  • Transforming access to children and young people’s mental health support
  • How the internet hijacked our health
  • Liverpool’s ‘blue people’: the older adults redefining what ageing looks like
  • Thousands recruited for “new era” severe mental illness study
  • Children to be better protected from second-hand smoking and vaping
  • Plus much more

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


Thank you

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

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