Tag: Current Awareness

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

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

Thank You to Mersey CareNHS Foundation Trust Library for producing this bulletin

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

Thank you to Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust library for producing this bulletin

Public Health

Current Awareness

Source: KnowledgeShare

Reverse the Trend: Reducing type 2 diabetes in young people.
Diabetes UK; 2024.
(This report reveals a 40% rise in type 2 diabetes diagnoses in younger people between 2016-17 and 2022-23. There are now almost 168,000 people under 40 years in the UK who live with type 2 diabetes. This troubling and growing trend underlines how serious health conditions linked to obesity, caused by the environment we live in, are becoming more prevalent in a younger demographic.)

Equity of access to cancer treatment: An analysis of travel times to radiotherapy services across the UK.
Radiotherapy UK; 2024.
(Radiotherapy UK have captured the reality of accessing radiotherapy treatment in the UK, and what this means for cancer patients. This analysis covers current access to radiotherapy, an overview of the 45-minute benchmark, key findings, what this means for patients with cancer and recommendations for the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.)

Poverty stigma: a glue that holds poverty in place.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation; 2024.
(Poverty stigma exacerbates shamefully high rates of poverty in the UK. It can affect health as much as trying to survive on a low income. How do we combat it?)

A Neglected Generation: Reversing the decline in children’s health.
The Food Foundation; 2024.
(The report highlights the increase in obesity and type 2 diabetes driven by calorie dense diets, and the results of poor-quality diets and undernutrition, which are increasingly impacting on children and often paradoxically co-existing with obesity. The findings raise questions regarding the nutritional quality of food that children are eating, in addition to wider socio-economic forces that shape the conditions for the optimal growth and development of young children.)
Freely available online

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Depression and Anxiety May 24

With thanks to our colleagues from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust please find the latest bulletin attached. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account. For support accessing any of the articles, please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

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Perinatal Mental Health

Current Awareness

With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation trust the latest Perinatal Mental Health bulletin is now available to view and download. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account. Please get in touch for support with this: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

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Public Health

Current Awareness

Are UK health systems dementia ready?: Comparing dementia policy across the four nations of the UK.
Future Health; 2024.

(A dementia diagnosis remains one of the most feared by the public. The potential arrival of new treatments creates an opportunity to improve patient outcomes. But to do so will require health systems to be dementia ready quickly. Urgent action is now needed to make them so.)
Freely available online

When I’m 64: A strategy to tackle poverty before state pension age: summary report.
Fabian Society; 2024.

(The UK is facing a hidden poverty crisis among 60 to 65-year-olds. Since 2010, no significant measures to ameliorate the impact of the rising pension age have been introduced. This report looks at the roots of the problem and presents a strategy for solving it.)
Freely available online

The future for health after Brexit.
Nuffield Trust; 2024.

(This report tracks issues that are important for the delivery of health and care in the UK to understand how our changing relationship with Europe is changing the picture for the NHS and health more generally, and what the prospects are for the future. This latest report shows that global medicine shortages are being felt particularly acutely in the UK, and the country’s reliance on migration as a source of health and social care staff is intensifying.)
Freely available online


Internet Watch Foundation Annual Report 2023: #BehindTheScreens.
Internet Watch Foundation (IWF); 2024.

(IWF works to end child sexual abuse imagery online. The annual report contains 2023 trends and data, and case studies and provides some analysis on the distribution of child sexual abuse images and videos on the internet. The new data reveals thousands of images and videos of three to six year old children who have been groomed, coerced and tricked into sexually abusive acts, are now being found on the open internet.)

On the path to ending smoking: using new funding.
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH); 2024.

(With a major opportunity to reset our local strategies and make rapid progress towards ending smoking for all populations this paper has been developed by ASH in partnership with DsPH and Humber and North Yorkshire’s Centre for Tobacco Control Excellence to support local decision making in spending new funding to address smoking. It has been reviewed and endorsed by the Association of Directors of Public Health.)

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Forensic Psychiatry

Current Awareness Bulletin

With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation trust the latest Forensic Psychiatry bulletin is now available to view and download. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account. Please get in touch for support with this: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

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Mental Health

Current Awareness Bulletins

With thanks to our colleagues at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trusts, new current awareness bulletins are avaialble to view and download. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account. Please get in touch for additional support: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Suicide Prevention and Self Harm

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Dementia

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Depression and Anxiety

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Learning Disabilities and Autism

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