The current bulletin for Stress and Burnout, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download here.
For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletin please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
Med-Tech Innovation editor Ian Bolland is joined by Dag Larsson from digital health company Doccla to discuss virtual wards, remote patient monitoring and whether this technology will really stick following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Listen to the podcast here.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating and honouring fiction by women. The Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women in English from throughout the world. The 2021 shortlist was announced on 28th April, with the winner being announced on the 7th July.
The judges of the 2021 International Booker Prize have shortlisted six books in contention for the prize, which celebrates the finest translated fiction from around the world.
See the shortlist here.
Read this week’s bulletin on Learning Disabilities here
Source: The King’s Fund Health Management and Policy Alert
This year’s Social Care 360 report uses the latest available data (2019/20) to describe the key trends in adult social care as the Covid-19 pandemic struck and to suggest what the impact of the pandemic might be. It paints quite a bleak picture of adult social care in England, with many key indicators already going in the wrong direction before the pandemic struck.
Thank-you to everyone who attended our lunch and learn session yesterday. Our guest speakers, Jane Beenstock, Alison Pye and Cath Taylor from the Public Health team, have been following the development and research relating to Long Covid and they gave us a very interesting insight into what Long Covid is and what the research around this topic is telling us.
If you missed the session, you can catch up here (please use your LSCFT email to access.)
We would really appreciate any feedback on these sessions. If you have a few spare minutes we kindly ask you to complete our survey- which should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete: https://www.surveymonkey.com
Our next session will be held in June and will focus on Strategy Development . We hope to see as many of you there. Please contact carmel.smith@lscft.nhs.uk if you would like an invite to this session.
These awards identify and disseminate positive practice in mental health services by working together across organisations and sectors, to facilitate shared learning, and to raise the profile of mental health with politicians and policy makers. Nominations are now open for 2021.
Visit: http://positivepracticemh.com/national-mental-health-awards-2020 to nominate a team, service or project.
Read the latest bulletin here
Care homes: visiting restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic House of Commons; 2021
(This report calls on the government to make the existing requirements for individualised assessment for visits mandatory by laying its draft regulations, as soon as possible. Government guidance now makes clear that care home providers should not impose blanket bans on visiting but should instead conduct individualised risk assessments for each resident. However, without statutory force, there is no legal recourse for residents to require their providers to implement the guidance.)
Racism and discrimination: the experience of primary care professionals in the Humberside region Humberside LMC: April 2021
(This report highlights discrimination faced by staff and patients from ethnic minority backgrounds in general practice. It finds that respondents reported experiences of discrimination in a wide range of areas such as training, working patterns and complaints, and it calls for a zero-tolerance approach to tackle racism in all its forms. )
Pandemic patient experience II: from lockdown to vaccine roll-out The Patient’s Association; April 2021
(In 2020, patients told the Patients Association about their experiences of living with health and care needs during the Covid-19 pandemic. Their testimony painted a bleak picture in many ways. This follow-up survey (drawing on 453 responses, submitted over February, March and early April 2021) finds that many aspects of their experiences are not much better, and some are worse. Accessing general practice services remains difficult for many, and patients overall do not regard remote consultations as an adequate replacement for in-person appointments.)
Outpatient appointments intended but not booked after inpatient stays Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB); April 2021
(This investigation explores the patient safety risk of outpatient appointments that are intended but not booked following an inpatient stay. It also considers opportunities for building resilience into the process to ensure timely appointments. It concludes with two safety recommendations that are aimed at reducing the chance that patients will be lost after an inpatient stay and supporting the staff within trusts who are responsible for arranging appointments and tracking patients.)
Unemployment and mental health The Health Foundation; April 2021
(This analysis estimates that an increase of 900,000 people in unemployment expected by the end of the year, compared with before the pandemic, will lead to 200,000 more people with poor mental health in the UK. It acknowledges that while government action to reduce a rise in unemployment by extending the furlough scheme to September will support mental health, it suggests that the benefits system and employment support programmes currently fail to properly account for the mental health needs of those who are unemployed. It concludes that there is now an opportunity to ensure that efforts to tackle unemployment in the pandemic recovery are designed to better support mental health.)
Skin cancer awareness month toolkit Skin Cancer Foundation; May 2021
(A social media toolkit giving you downloadable skin cancer images and resources to help you share the facts during Skin Cancer Awareness Month)
