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

20 October 2026 – Evidently Better

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Community Health Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

All credit goes to our co-workers over at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

In this edition:

  • NHS mental health system failing staff and patients, warns Mind, as survey reveals widespread concerns over quality of care
  • Psychosis and schizophrenia in adults: prevention and management [CG178], (Updated 04 September 2026)
  • Follow-up care for people discharged from mental health inpatient care
  • Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2026
  • Mental health services must change to better support survivors of non-recent child sexual abuse, acknowledges RCPsych
  • Parents urged to vaccinate children at the right time to protect them
  • Plus much more

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Community Health Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Credit to our coworkers over at Mersey Care.

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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Or come to see us at The Gosall Library | Lantern Centre | Vicarage Lane | Preston | PR2 8DW

Library Bulletin

Physical Health and Mental Illness

With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust the April bulletin for physical health and mental illness is now available to view and download.

The links to abstracts have been activated in this bulletin and if you click on the title, it will lead you to the abstract.  

Some of the references contained in the bulletin may be an Open Access reference, which will be available for you download and some may be available to download via a LSCFT Athens Account login. Some of the references may be an abstract only, and the full text will have to be requested directly from the library- please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk with your request. .  

National Self Care Week

National Self Care Week is 15 – 21 November 2021

  • Self Care Week is an annual UK-wide national awareness week that focuses on embedding support for self care across communities, families and generations.
  • Practise Self Care for Life is the theme for 2021
  • The Self Care Forum has been organising Self Care Week since 2011

For more information visit the website

Library Bulletin

Physical Health and Mental Illness

The current bulletin for physical and mental illness, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download.

For any support accessing any of the articles within the bulletin please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Library Bulletin

Physical Health and Mental Health Bulletin

The physical health and mental health bulletin December 2020, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download.

Report

Recreating parks: securing the future of our urban green spaces

In this briefing paper, the cross-party think-tank states that parks and green spaces should be seen as a tool of health care in the same way as medicines and therapies. Giving the NHS a role in supporting parks and green spaces would allow doctors to make more use of social prescribing techniques where patients are told to take exercise and spend time outdoors to boost physical and mental health.