Tag: Report

Survey Results

Understanding people’s concerns about the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

The Academy of Medical Sciences, together with the research charity MQ: Transforming Mental Health, is working with researchers and those with lived experience to ensure that mental health is at the heart of research into the impacts of COVID-19. This report describes the findings of a consultation undertaken in late March 2020, the week that the Prime Minister announced the UK lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Report from the Samaritans

Out of sight out of mind: Why less well-off, middle-aged men don’t get the support they need

An ongoing Samaritan’s research project seeks to build on what is already known about the reasons for the high rate of suicide among less well-off, middle-aged men, by exploring what can be done to drive change. This report brings together the findings of the first stage of this research, which included a review of the evidence relating to existing wellbeing support and suicide prevention services, and primarily ethnographic research with this at-risk group. It explores the lived experience of less well-off, middle-aged men and how community-based support services can be made more appealing and effective for them.

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CQC Report

Using machine learning in diagnostic services: a report with recommendations from CQC’s regulatory sandbox

This sandbox round focused on the use of machine learning applications for diagnostic purposes in healthcare services. The findings were used to identify and consider where the CQC needs to update their current regulatory methods, and the work required to get this right in order to regulate these services better. A regulatory sandbox is a way of testing how best to regulate new types of services by working collaboratively to find out about them.

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Research by Nuffield Trust

Achieving scale and spread: Learning for innovators and policy-makers

In recent years, a significant number of innovators have forged ways to scale and spread innovation in the NHS. However, despite some existing work in this area, less is known about how to achieve greater scale and spread beyond early adopters. The Nuffield Trust was commissioned by the NHS Innovation Accelerator to help fill this knowledge gap.

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Royal College of Nursing

A competency framework for rheumatology nurses

This publication provides a competency and role development framework for rheumatology practitioners in clinical practice (most commonly called rheumatology nurse specialists). The role of the rheumatology nurse specialist is complex and may include roles in paediatric nursing, research, advanced level skills in clinical assessment, and prescribing and providing intra-articular injections, among others.

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Carnegie UK Trust

Race inequality in the workforce: exploring connections between work, ethnicity and mental health

This report, a joint initiative with Operation Black Vote and UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies, presents new data from Next Steps, a longitudinal study of the ‘millennial generation’ in England. The work reveals persistent issues around the relationships between employment, ethnicity and mental health and underlines that there are enduring inequalities in the workplace between ethnic groups. The report presents recommendations for actions – for government, for mental health services and for employers.

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NHS Providers

Mental health services: meeting the need for capital investment

There has been prolonged under-investment in facilities across the English NHS. However, while restricted capital funding is affecting all sectors of the NHS, there is a particular need for capital investment within the mental health sector. This briefing summarises the findings of a survey NHS Providers sent to NHS mental health trusts and foundation trusts to gather further evidence on the sector’s capital funding needs, to support the case they are making for the sector to receive its fair share of capital investment in future.

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