Improving patient wellbeing

Creating spaces for community and patient wellbeing

Source: The King’s Fund

NHSPS (NHS Property Service) wants to enable more patients and communities to have the opportunity to use NHS spaces to create health in ways that work for them. This report, commissioned from the Health Creation Alliance, sheds light on what matters most to ten different communities when accessing and using repurposed NHS community spaces. The communities that participated are some of those disproportionately affected by health inequalities across the UK.

To find out more click here.

KNOWvember

Library Training Sessions

To celebrate KNOWvember (a month about learning and sharing knowledge) the Library Team are holding 3 online events to learn more about the service and the resources on offer to you. Take a look at the sessions below:

You can book your tickets via our EventBrite page here: Events (eventbrite.co.uk)

LSCFT Research Bulletin

November Edition

The latest edition of our LSCFT Research Bulletin is now available to view and download. Featuring published research conducted by our colleagues within the Trust.

Some articles may require an Open Athens account to login, others are freely accessible. If you are struggling to read any of the literature, please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

Please remember to keep the library updated wit

A working partnership

A guide to developing integrated statutory and voluntary sector mental health services

Source: Centre for Mental Health

Increasingly, the NHS and the voluntary and community sector (VCS) are being expected to work together to shape and deliver integrated mental health (and other health) services. This guide has been developed drawing on the experiences of a significant number of people actively involved in the development of integrated mental health services across the country from a range of perspectives. It reflects the many common themes and suggestions they shared.

Library Bulletins

Suicide Prevention, Dementia and Depression

The current bulletins for Suicide Prevention, Dementia and Depression, produced by Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust, are now available to view and download.

For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletins please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Public Health

Current Awareness

Girls’ Attitudes Survey 2022.
Girlguiding; 2022.
https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/girls-making-change/girls-attitudes-survey/
(This 2022 survey asks girls and young women how they feel about their daily lives and society after the pandemic, their safety, their experiences of sexism and stereotypes, their involvement in social and community action and their mental health. To delve deeper into these findings, we’ve reported on a regional basis for the first time.)

Tracking the price of the lowest-cost grocery items, UK, experimental analysis: April 2021 to September 2022.
Office for National Statistics (ONS); 2022.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/trackingthelowestcostgroceryitemsukexperimentalanalysis/april2021toseptember2022
(How the prices of the lowest-cost products for 30 everyday items have changed since April 2021. The figures highlight how poorer families are bearing the brunt of the cost of living crisis, with prices for some budget grocery items soaring far ahead of the official 10.1% rate of inflation, which is at a 40-year high. Pasta prices rose 60%, tea jumped 65% and chips went up 39%. There were also large price increases for other everyday low-cost items including milk, biscuits and bread.)

BReATHE interventions (Beating Regional Asthma Through Health Education):an innovative approach to children’s asthma care in the North East and North Cumbria, UK: an interventional study.
Townshend J. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2022;107(5):500-504.
(BReATHE (Beating Regional Asthma Through Health Education) is a new, innovative approach to improving asthma care and outcomes for CYP (children and young people) across the North East and North Cumbria, co-designed with patients, families, local authorities and health professionals and guided by the NRAD recommendations. The impact on the unplanned hospital admission rates in children due to asthma in Newcastle-upon-Tyne hospitals is highlighted.) Accessible with Open Athens

People with complex emotional needs and their views of community mental health services.
The Mental Elf; 2022.
https://www.nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/personality-disorder/complex-emotional-needs-community-mental-health/
(Emmeline Lagunes Cordoba summarises a co-produced qualitative interview study on service user perspectives of community mental health services for people with complex emotional needs.)


Cannabis use in college: genetic predispositions less influential than social environment.
The Mental Elf; 2022.
https://www.nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/substance-misuse/cannabis-use-in-college/
(Sally Turner reviews a recent study exploring cannabis use in college, which provides useful evidence relating to how universities could promote a sense of community, belonging and support to students who use cannabis.)

Library Bulletin

Serious Mental Illness

With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust, the latest edition of the serious mental illness bulletin is now available to view and download.

Some articles are freely accessible. Others may require an Open Athens login. For any support accessing any of the documents or support with your Athens account, please get in touch with academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Library Newsletter

November 2022

Our November newsletter is now available to read and download- please feel free to share and display this within your departments. It features key events of what is happening in the Lantern Centre this month as well as introducing our new podcast – take a listen to our first episode and see what you think. We hope you enjoy reading this month’s edition and as always value any feedback or suggestions you may have for our team.