Dear all,
Please see the latest MECC bulletin May 2026.
Tag: Current Awareness
Latest Depression & 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/2026/05/11-may-2026/
In this edition:
- Key target hit with 8,500 extra mental health workers in the NHS
- Mental illness is pregnancy’s number one complication. It’s time to support those who suffer from it
- Supported housing crisis costs NHS mental health services in England £102 million a year
- MDMA-assisted therapy for depression: a promising but early first step
- Plus much more
Please let us know if there are other people who you think might benefit from receiving this bulletin.
Latest Community Health Bulletin
Dear all,
The latest Community Health Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2026/05/7-may-2026/
In this edition:
- Government response to the report ‘The First 1000 Days: a renewed focus’
- “More Than Missing School”
- Adopting a greener lens on mental health
- NHS overhauls clinical standards to reduce maternal deaths
- Overwhelmed community mental health nurses raise alarm over staffing and caseloads
- Tobacco and Vapes Bill becomes law
- Plus much more
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Forensic Psychiatry
Current Awareness Bulletin
With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health, the latest forensic psychiatry bulletin can be accessed: forensic-psychiatry-january-2026pdf.pdf. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account. You can create an account here: OpenAthens | Login or get in touch wit the library team (academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk) for further support.
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):
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Educational 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.)
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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