Library Bulletin

Health Services Management

The current bulletin for Health Services Management, 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

Library Bulletin

Stress and Burnout

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

Library Bulletin

Occupational Therapy and Mental Health

The current bulletin for Occupational Therapy and Mental Health, 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

Covid 19

Current awareness updates

Covid-19: How local authorities have adapted social work practice.
What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC); 2021.
[The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown raised large concerns over how social workers would be able to still deliver the support needed for the families they work with. This Covid-19 Report looks at six of the initiatives rapidly implemented by local authorities’ children’s services to adapt their practice in response to Covid-19.]

Public Health

Current awareness updates

Children and young people’s mental health.
House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee; 2021.
[According to NHS data, the mental health of children and young people in England has worsened since 2017. Even before the pandemic, children and young people were facing a mental health crisis. Three lockdowns and the social distancing requirements of the pandemic have exacerbated the struggle with the loss of normal social structures, being unable to socialise in person with peers and not being able to attend school or university.]

Ventilation, ventilation, ventilation.
Trades Union Congress (TUC); 2021.
[Every workplace risk assessment should include aerosol transmission, and outline what steps are being taken to improve ventilation where necessary. Ventilation being one of the most effective ways to mitigate risk, but it’s the one employers are least likely to be paying attention to.]