Category: Education & Training

Lunch and Learn

A session around the Trust strategy

Thank-you to everyone who attended our lunch and learn session yesterday. Our guest speaker, Paul Bibby, Head of Strategy and Business Planning, gave a very interesting presentation about the Trust strategy, featuring a short video summarising the key information.

If you missed the session, you can watch the session recording 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

Lunch and Learn – Reminder

A session around the Trust Strategy

This is just a reminder that the next Lunch and Learn session will be held via Teams on Thursday 2nd December between 12pm and 1pm.

This session will include a short video presentation and will cover:

  • The Trust Strategy
  • Visions, values and strategic priorities
  • An opportunity to ask the Strategy and Business Development Team questions and let the team know your thoughts on how the strategy can be delivered in your area of work

Teams invites have been sent to all our Library registered users. If you would like an invite to be extended to you or your team please email: carmel.smith@lscft.nhs.uk

Public Health

Current awareness updates

Violence Prevention Information System (Violence Info).
World Health Organization (WHO); 2021.
[Developed in collaboration with the Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Public Health Wales and the World Health Organisation, Violence Info is an online interactive collection of scientific information about the prevalence, consequences, risk factors and preventability of all forms of interpersonal violence. It covers homicide, child maltreatment, youth violence, intimate partner violence, elder abuse and sexual violence.]

Two new tobacco cessation medicines added to the WHO essential medicines list.
World Health Organization (WHO); 2021.
[On 1 October 2021, the WHO announced the updated the Model List where two new medicines have been added, indicating a powerful shift in the fight against the tobacco epidemic. Bupropion and varenicline are medicines which work in a different way from nicotine replacement. The new medicines reduce cravings for nicotine without supplying a nicotine substitute, thereby supporting people in quitting tobacco use and reducing nicotine dependence.]

Healthy weight coach elearning programme: for primary care networks, healthcare practices and pharmacies.
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID); 2021.
[This reference guide is for primary care networks, healthcare practices and pharmacies interested in training staff, and staff interested in undertaking training, to become a healthy weight coach.]

Blood pressure lowering and risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes: an individual participant data meta-analysis.
The Lancet; 2021.
[Blood pressure lowering is an effective strategy for the prevention of new-onset type 2 diabetes. Established pharmacological interventions, however, have qualitatively and quantitively different effects on diabetes. This evidence supports the indication for selected classes of antihypertensive drugs for the prevention of diabetes, which could further refine the selection of drug choice according to an individual’s clinical risk of diabetes.]

Caring for older patients with complex needs: How does England compare with 11 OECD countries?
The Health Foundation; 2021.
[The analysis shows that looking across the system is essential to understand the true resource use of patients with complex needs, if policymakers are to identify areas for improvement in care. The comparatively high mortality rates for people admitted for hip fracture and for people with heart failure and diabetes in England are concerning and require scrutiny by policymakers, commissioners and providers…]

Emotional Support

Online resources – Wot Wud U Do?

Wot Wud U Do is an interactive and thought provoking resource, designed to help professionals to educate the younger generation on topics that impact them daily, such as mental health, relationships and sex. 

Their vision is simple; to change how young people think when confronted with day to day challenges on mental health, relationships and/or sex. They support their vision with three main aims, which are:

  • To educate young people to think critically when it comes to making decisions
  • To raise their awareness of how their level of self-esteem affects their ability to make decisions
  • To stimulate a lively debate within the classroom by simply asking ‘Wot Wud U Do’.

For more information visit the website or watch the video below.

Emotional Support

Sam Tyrer and Change Talks

Sam Tyrer is the Prevention and Engagement Lead here at Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust and is the founder of a service called Change Talks, which offers mental health education to 11-21 year olds. This service has reached over 55,000 young people since the beginning of 2018 and it continues to go from strength to strength.

Sam is also the co-host of a webinar series called the Mental Health Family Hour, which has recently received national recognition from the Prime Minister. The Points of Light Award was given to Sam and his co-host for their work throughout the lockdown to support people’s mental health through their weekly webinar series.

We will be featuring some of Sam’s work over the coming weeks on the library blog and Twitter page as well as some useful resources Sam recommends for helping us all to provide emotional support, both at work and at home.

Please email us at academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk to share your tips or advice for providing emotional support for your friends, relatives and colleagues.

Webinar

The truth about mental health inequality, 8th October 2021

Join the Centre for Mental Health to mark World Mental Health Day by putting the spotlight on mental health inequalities. A year on from their ground-breaking report Mental Health For All?, this webinar looks at the hard facts surrounding inequality in mental health: why some people are so much more likely to face mental health difficulties, or struggle to get the help they deserve.

Read more and register for this event here.

Public Health

Current awareness updates

How has cognitive behaviour therapy been adapted for adolescents with comorbid depression and chronic illness? A scoping review.[Abstract]
Morey A. Child and Adolescent Mental Health 2021;26(3):252-264.
[BACKGROUND: Depression becomes increasingly common in adolescence. Around 10%-20% of adolescents have a chronic illness, and they are more likely to experience depression. There is emerging evidence for cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) interventions to treat depression in adolescents with chronic illnesses, yet no review has been undertaken of how these CBT interventions are delivered in practice.]

The best terminology to describe self-harm: “There is more that unites us than divides us”.
The Mental Elf; 2021.
[Angharad de Cates reviews a recent study which examined international definitions of English-language terms for suicidal and self-harm behaviours.]

Education, schooling and health summary.
Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England; 2021.
[Summary of the existing evidence of the health and wellbeing benefits of school-age education. This paper aims to summarise the existing evidence of the health and wellbeing benefits of school-age education, including the wider impacts on mental and physical health and wellbeing of being in school and the observed impacts of the loss of education in the last 18 months.]

Does the IAPT self-referral process work for people living in poverty?
The Mental Elf; 2021.
[In her debut blog, Alice Potter reviews a qualitative study exploring different perspectives on the accessibility of current IAPT self-referral processes for people with mental health problems living in poverty.]

STI rates remain a concern despite fall in 2020.
Public Health England (PHE); 2021.
[New data from Public Health England (PHE) reveal that diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) decreased in 2020 by 32% compared to 2019.]

Promotional material: Flu immunisation for social care staff.
Public Health England (PHE); 2021.
[Leaflets for social care workers and personal care assistants to support the annual flu programme.]

Dismissed for too long: recommendations to improve migraine care in the UK.
The Migraine Trust; 2021.
[This report found a wide range of issues with migraine health care, including slow or no diagnosis and lack of access to specialist care. It sets out the action needed from the government, health care systems and other organisations to give everyone living with migraine in the UK the support they need.]




NHE Virtual Festival

NHS Net Zero: How are you contributing to help reach a net-zero NHS?

NHS England and the NHS Improvement Public Board, have reaffirmed their support for delivering the world’s first net zero national health service.

With a number of cost-effective solutions focused on anaesthetic gases, virtual appointments, and energy efficiency measures, the NHS has already made significant progress in decreasing emissions.

Join in on the 25th August as this event brings together health sector professionals for a day of innovation, education and collaboration around achieving a net-zero NHS.

If you haven’t already registered for this virtual event you can sign up here.

NHE Virtual Festival

Net Zero NHS: Leaders Debate: Travel & Transport

Patients, visitors, workers, and suppliers to the NHS account for roughly 3.5% of all road travel in England, accounting for nearly 14% of the system’s total emissions. Some of the broad interventions considered to reduce this, range from transitioning to low-emission vehicles, to reducing unnecessary journeys and enabling healthier, active forms of travel such as cycling and walking. 

On 25 August NHE are bringing industry leaders together to share knowledge and insight on how we can achieve a net-zero NHS.

Register to join here.