Month: March 2021

Realising the value of vaccines in the UK

Consulting Report

Source: The King’s Fund Health Management and Policy Alert

Health technology assessment approaches in the UK (as well as some other countries) limit themselves to evaluating health benefits that accrue to treated individuals and resource use within the health care system. As a result, vaccines and other technologies that generate broader benefits – such as maintaining health care capacity or labour productivity – may be undervalued and underused. This  report on the broader value of vaccines (commissioned by the ABPI Vaccines Group) sets out actionable short- and long-term recommendations on how to drive change towards recognising and rewarding the broader value of vaccines in the UK.

For more information click here.

Workforce Race Equality Standard

2020 data analysis report for NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups

Source: The King’s Fund Health Management and Policy Alert

This report enables organisations to compare their performance with others in their region and those providing similar services, with the aim of encouraging improvement by learning and sharing good practice. The report hopes to provide a national picture of WRES in practice, to colleagues, organisations and the public on the developments in the workforce race equality agenda.

Library Newsletter

March Edition

Thank you to everyone who completed our Library user survey. We are always looking at ways in which we can improve and develop our department and from this have developed a newsletter to keep you up to date with current awareness, e-resources, books as well as top tips.

The newsletter will be sent to all our Library users every month and can also be viewed, printed, shared and displayed by downloading the document below.

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Just a reminder that our Lunch and Learn project begins with a wellbeing and mental health session on Thursday 18th March 2021 12pm-1pm. If you haven’t already recieved your team invite please contact katie.roper@lscft.nhs.uk.

We hope you enjoy reading our newsletters- if you would like to see anything featured in these, please send your ideas, suggestions or requests to academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Toolkit

Inclusion health self-assessment tool for primary care networks.

Friends, Families and Travellers; 2021

This online tool aims to help primary care networks (PCNs) to assess their engagement with inclusion health groups. These are the groups identified as experiencing the worst health inequalities in the UK. The tool will provide a unique and tailored guide that will help PCNs to embed action on tackling health inequalities into their everyday activities

Meet the Author

Laura Kemp

Laura Kemp started writing to get out of doing a real job.

A journalist for 15 years, she turned freelance after having a baby because she couldn’t get out of the house, washed and dressed, until lunchtime at the earliest.

A columnist and contributor, she regularly writes for national newspapers and magazines, such as The Daily Mail, The Sun and Grazia, and spends too much time on Twitter.

Married with a son and a neurotic cat, Laura lives in the provinces, where she goes about her business ignorant of what’s on-trend until it reaches her town, by which time it’s out of fashion.

Laura’s first novel Mums Like Us was published by Arrow in February 2013 and Mums on Strike was published in January 2014. The Late Blossoming of Frankie Green was published by Head of Zeus in June 2016, The Year of Surprising Acts of Kindness was published by Orion in February 2018, and Bring Me Sunshine was published in June 2019.

Her latest novel, Under A Starry Sky, was published in paperback in July 2020.

As our featured author, Laura has kindly answered a few questions for us about books that have entertained and inspired her and her work as an author.

Read the interview here.

For more information about Laura and her books see her Facebook page or follow her on Twitter.

Partnership for Responsive Policy Analysis and Research (PREPARE)

Understanding clinical decision-making at the interface of the Mental Health Act (1983) and the Mental Capacity Act (2005)

Source: The King’s Fund Health Management and Policy Alert

The Mental Health Act (1983) (MHA) and the Mental Capacity Act (2005) (MCA) both provide a legal means by which people can be deprived of their liberty and admitted to hospital on a formal basis when they lack capacity to consent to their admission and treatment. A key interface of the MHA and the MCA arises where an individual lacks the capacity to decide whether to be admitted to hospital to receive care and treatment, and are not objecting to admission or treatment, then the decision of which Act to use for these purposes is that of professionals involved. This report looks at that decision-making process.

Library Bulletin

Community Mental Health Services Bulletin

The February edition of Community Mental Health Services Bulletin, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download. The links to abstracts have been activated in this bulletin, so if you click on the title. If you would like to read the full article, please contact the library team: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

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Covid 19

Current Awareness Updates

The impact of Covid-19 on the lives of Latin American migrants IRMO Research Report; Feb 2021

(This report reveals the intersecting crises of rising unemployment, abusive employment practices, inadequate housing and increasing food poverty facing the Latin American community. This is compounded by digital exclusion and the language barrier, meaning that many find it difficult to access mainstream support. The lack of access to basic health care raises concerns about the rollout of the vaccine among the community.)

Community testing – GOV.UK

(Community asymptomatic testing helps identify and isolate individuals who have coronavirus (COVID-19) but do not have symptoms.)

COVID-19: migrant health guide – GOV.UK

(Advice and guidance for healthcare practitioners on the health needs of migrant patients.)

Protecting and supporting the clinically extremely vulnerable during lockdown.
National Audit Office (NAO); 2021.

(Report looks at how effectively government identified and met the needs of clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) people. It found there was impressive initial support offered to many people, but it took time for people to be identified as CEV, and therefore access formal support.)