Community Health Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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In this edition:

  • National partnership agreement on asylum seeker health in England
  • Care continuity between midwifery and health visiting services
  • Billions are spent on child mental health services without knowing if they work in the long term
  • Major expansion of community mental health support across England
  • Misleading AI-generated doctors pose ‘huge danger to public safety’
  • Better support, better outcomes: New report highlights what works in early psychosis care
  • Plus much more

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Forensic and Secure Mental Health Services Bulletin

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Suffering is not inevitable: a thematic analysis of a roundtable on ADHD and mental health.

Centre for Mental Health; 2026.

https://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/publications/suffering-is-not-inevitable-a-thematic-analysis-of-a-roundtable-on-adhd-and-mental-health/
[Centre for Mental Health in collaboration with James’ Place convened an online roundtable around Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and how it intersects with mental health, with a particular focus on suicidality and suicide prevention. This briefing highlights the key themes and insights. The analysis generated four themes: ‘Centring lived and living experience,’ ‘Widespread systemic failures,’ ‘Cost of getting it wrong,’ and ‘Realistically hopeful ways forward.’]
Freely available online

Children’s and Young People’s Mental Health Services: 2024-25.

The Children’s Commissioner; 2026.

Fifth and final report into children’s mental health services looking at the journeys children take through mental health services in England, and how that differs depending on what they were referred for, their age, gender, ethnic background and the area-level deprivation where they live.

Freely available online

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NHS Alliance calls for new mental health waiting time target for children and young people

National Health Executive

Here is the latest on mental health for children and young people.

https://mag.nationalhealthexecutive.com/articles/nhs-alliance-calls-for-new-mental-health-waiting-time-target-for-children-and-young-people

from the CPD Magazine

Latest Community Health Bulletin

Dear all,

The latest Community Health Bulletin is ready for you to view at  https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2026/06/16-june-2026/

In this edition:

  • Changes to the definition of deprivation of liberty
  • Lord Mann review on antisemitism and other forms of racism in the NHS
  • Supporting people with frailty outside hospitals
  • Embedding co-design and participation in early years services
  • Dismissed, siloed and misunderstood: Our mental health system is failing women
  • A new Online NHS Trust for specialist care
  • Plus much more

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


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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