Tag: Mental Health

Community Health Bulletin

The latest Community Health Bulletin is ready for you to view at  https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2026/06/3-june-2026/

In this edition:

  • Prevention Starts Here: Health visitors, school nurses and children’s health in England
  • Young people with mental health conditions are now more likely to be NEET
  • Health Bill: summary – fact sheet
  • What would it take for the NHS to treat violence against women and girls as a public health emergency?
  • Trauma-informed care and racialised communities
  • Ageing with purpose: the surprising science of frailty reversal
  • Plus much more

Mental health: Using evidence to improve care.

Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP); 2026.

https://www.hqip.org.uk/news/mental-health-from-crisis-to-evidence-informed-improvement/


[HQIP’s CEO, Chris Gush, explains why data is pivotal to the national review of services and the transformation of mental health care.]
Freely available online

Mental health difficulties among young adults have doubled in past decade.

Centre for Longitudinal Studies; 2026.

https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health-difficulties-among-young-adults-have-doubled-in-past-decade/


[More than a fifth (22%) of generation Z in England report having a longstanding mental health condition in their early 20s, double the rate of millennials (10%) at a similar age ten years earlier, finds a new UCL study.]
Freely available online

Resources to support work around Mental Health and Wellbeing

Dear all,

Click here to explore Research in Practice resources to support Mental Health Awareness Week, including:

Supporting mental health and wellbeing | Research in Practice
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Forensic Psychiatry Bulletin

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Forensic Psychiatry Bulletin

The link below is to the latest edition of this current awareness bulletin on the Trust Library webpage. The links to abstracts have been activated in this bulletin and if you click on the title, it will take you to either the abstract or a full text version.

https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/download/forensic-psychiatry-may-2026pdf.pdf?ver=24377&doc=docm93jijm4n18400.pdf

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Latest Depression & Anxiety bulletin

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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

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Mental Health Report

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Spiralling cost of mental health patients stuck in acute hospitals revealed.
HSJ: Health Service Journal 2026;(27 April):7041548.
[Hospital trusts are spending millions of pounds a year on expensive temporary staff to look after mental health patients stranded in emergency departments and acute wards, HSJ has learnt. Figures released to HSJ by 70 acute trusts showed several trusts in cities spent more than £1m each during 2025 on additional agency staffing to care for patients waiting for mental health treatment, and with no physical care need.]
Available with appropriate registration or membership

Prison leavers in substance misuse treatment: 4-week outcomes.
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID); 2026.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-leavers-in-substance-misuse-treatment-4-week-outcomes

[Analysis of mortality and re-incarceration rates within 4 weeks of release for prison leavers receiving substance misuse treatment in England.

The main report and accompanying data tables present information and findings from this analysis, including demographic and offending characteristics and mortality and re-incarceration rates for prison leavers receiving substance misuse treatment.]


Latest Community Health Bulletin

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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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