This is the guidance for information for industry and organisations involved in health and care on preparing for the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020. New guidance can be found for the following:
•Supply of medicines and medical products
•Nutrition legislation
•Substances of human origin
•Labelling of tobacco products
•Recognition of professional qualifications
We just wanted to wish all our friends and colleagues a very Merry Christmas. We know this year is not what we intended, however the dedication and commitment of all the NHS staff within the Trust have inevitably saved hundreds of lives this year! Thankyou for all your hard work, motivation and courage to get through one heck of a year.
This is a small reminder that the Lantern Centre will be closed from 5pm on Wednesday 23rd December and will re-open at 8:30am on the 4th January 2021. The Library team will still be available to contact throughout the week, however this will be with minimal staffing. Please continue to send us any requests to our inbox: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk and we will try our best to get back to you as soon as possible.
For now, have a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. We hope you all manage to celebrate in your own way.
Our online catalogue has been updated with the following texts:
To access these texts, simply login with your Library card. If you are not a Library member, please complete the following registration form and send it back to academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.
Please let the team know if you have any specific book or e-book requests.
Hepatitis C in England and the UK.
Public Health England (PHE); 2020.
[Latest PHE hepatitis C virus (HCV) reports and supporting documents, for England and the UK. 14 December 2020: Added Hepatitis C in the UK: 2020 report and accompanying slide set and infographic.]
Drug misuse in England and Wales: year ending March 2020.
Office for National Statistics (ONS); 2020.
[This publication reports on trends in drug use across England and Wales for the year ending March 2020. This publication is largely unaffected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as it mainly relates to the period prior to the lockdown. Overall drug use continued to remain stable, with around 1 in 11 adults aged 16 to 59 years having taken a drug in the past year.]
Whole systems approach to obesity.
Public Health England (PHE); 2020.
[A guide and set of resources to support local authorities with implementing a whole systems approach to address obesity and promote a healthy weight.
14 December 2020: Added ‘Opportunities to strengthen place-based systems approaches’ report and annexes.]
Coronavirus and the social impacts on Great Britain: 11 December 2020.
Office for National Statistics (ONS); 2020.
[One in five adults in Great Britain experienced some form of depression in November. This is similar to levels reported earlier in the year, but double that reported before the pandemic. Since late October, more adults say they believe life will return to normal within six months. However, a lower proportion of adults experiencing some form of anxiety and/or depression felt this was the case.]
The government’s approach to test and trace in England – interim report.
National Audit Office (NAO); 2020.
[This interim report provides an overview of test and trace services for addressing COVID-19 in England, including how the government’s approach has developed, and how it managed performance and capacity in the period from May to October 2020.]
A ‘new normal’? How people spent their time after the March 2020 coronavirus lockdown.
Office for National Statistics (ONS); 2020.
[During the first national coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown, many people in Great Britain were forced to make changes to their lifestyles. But it appears that some of those changes may not have lasted long. On the whole, people returned to pre-lockdown behaviour in September to October 2020.]
Sexual and Reproductive Health Services, England (Contraception) 2019/20.
NHS Digital; 2020.
[This publication primarily covers contraceptive activity taking place at dedicated Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services in England, as recorded in the Sexual and Reproductive Health Activity Dataset (SRHAD), a mandated collection for all providers of NHS SRH services. People attend SRH services for a variety of reasons, but the main focus of this report is contraception.]
National Diabetes Audit – Report 1 Care Processes and Treatment Targets 2018-19, Full Report.
NHS Digital; 2020.
[This report details the findings and recommendations relating to diabetes care process completion, treatment target achievement and structured education for the 2018-19 audit.]
Statistics on Smoking, England 2020.
NHS Digital; 2020.
[This report presents newly published information on smoking including:
Smoking-related hospital admissions from NHS Digital’s Hospital Episode Statistics (HES).Smoking-related deaths from Office for National Statistics (ONS) mortality statistics. Prescription items used to help people stop smoking from prescribing data held by NHS Prescription Services. Affordability of tobacco and expenditure on tobacco using ONS economic data.]
This is the guidance for information for industry and organisations involved in health and care on preparing for the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020.
New guidance can be found for the following:
This months Suicide Prevention bulletin is now available to view and download.
The December edition of digital mental health, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view or download.
Read this week’s bulletin on Depression here
