Digital Mental Health
The January edition of Digital Mental Health current awareness bulletin, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download.
Category: Mental Health
Library Bulletin
Physical Health and Mental Health Bulletin
The physical health and mental health bulletin December 2020, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download.
Library Bulletin
Serious Mental Illness – December 2020 Bulletin
The December issue of Serious Mental illness, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health, is now available to view and download.
Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2019/20
The Mental Health Act in the Covid-19 pandemic
Source: King’s Fund Health Management and Policy Alert
Monitoring the Mental Health Act is the CQC’s annual report on the use of the Mental Health Act (MHA). It looks at how providers are caring for patients, and whether patients’ rights are being protected. This year’s annual report puts a specific focus on the impact that the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has had on patients detained under the MHA, and on the services that care for and treat them.
To read the report click here or to find out more information visit: https://www.cqc.org.uk/publications/major-report/monitoring-mental-health-act-201920-mental-health-act-coronavirus-covid-19?utm_source=The%20King%27s%20Fund%20newsletters%20%28main%20account%29&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=12013209_NEWSL_HMP%202020-12-04&dm_i=21A8,75HG9,3COYDR,SYKPX,1
Public Health
Current Awareness
Staying mentally well: winter plan 2020 to 2021 Gov.uk. 23rd November 2020
(This plan sets out the support that will be in place in the immediate term to help support individuals to stay well during the second wave of Covid-19 and the winter months ahead.)
Learning from local authorities with downward trends in childhood obesity Public Health England
(This report, a set of practice examples researched by University College London and an executive summary by Public Health England, identifies common approaches being implemented by local authorities that had a small but significant 10-year downward trend in childhood obesity. The findings show the value of engagement with and integration of the National Child Measurement Programme and the importance of addressing health inequalities, with 76 per cent of local authorities having a focus on deprivation.) To view the summary click here.
How are the lives of families with young children changing? The changing face of early childhood in the UK Nuffield Foundation
(This evidence review reveals the extent of changes to family life in the UK over the past 20 years and highlights how these changes are experienced unequally across the population. The report argues that, without understanding family life today, the policies and initiatives that seek to address other key areas of society – education, the economy, physical health and mental health – will falter.)
National Child Measurement Programme: childhood obesity.
Public Health England (PHE); 2020.
(Research by University College London shares learning from local authorities that have a downward trend in childhood obesity, including practice examples.)
COVID-19: suggested principles of safer singing.
Public Health England (PHE); 2020.
(Outlining the available evidence on virus transmission associated with singing and suggested actions to reduce the risk of transmission while singing.)
The state of ageing in 2020.
Centre for Ageing Better; 2020.
(This online, interactive report captures a snapshot of how people in the UK are ageing today, while looking at past trends and our prospects if action isn’t taken. It warns that the Covid-19 pandemic risks setting people in mid-life on a path to poverty and ill health in old age.)
Covid 19
The impact of health for NHS Staff
Source: King’s Fund- Health Management and Policy Alert
This report reveals the extensive mental and physical health impact on the NHS, and health and care professionals across the UK, as a result of working and living through Covid-19. It also identifies organisational priorities for recovery, both as the country enters the next phase of the pandemic and for the longer term.
To find out more click here.
Mental health for all
Commission for equality in mental health
Source: King’s Fund- Health Management and Policy Alert
This final report of the Commission finds that mental health inequalities mirror wider economic and social inequalities. Wealth and power inequalities put at risk the mental health of people experiencing poverty, racial injustice and discrimination. This creates sharp social divisions, meaning that many groups of people face two or three times the risk of mental ill health. Yet the same groups of people find it harder to get help for their mental health, and in some cases also get poorer outcomes when they do. This report highlights, however, that effective action is possible. It sets out what a system designed for equality would look like, and how communities, local organisations, public services and national government can work together to generate change at scale.
Key contributors to mental health equality
For more information click here.
Wellbeing
Supporting mental health in the UK
How has Covid-19 and the associated lockdown measures affected mental health and wellbeing in the UK?
This briefing provides insights into how mental health conditions have changed and which risk factors need to be recognised when supporting people’s mental health.
To find out more click here.
Support for mental health social workers
Guidance to develop the role across all mental health settings
This guidance is designed to support all agencies that employ social workers. It has been produced to sit alongside the Local Government Association’s employers’ guidance and give detailed advice and support to develop the social work role across all mental health settings and organisations. It is based on the learning from the ‘social work for better mental health’ programme, working across more than 70 organisations, assessing and developing their integrated arrangements.
For more information click here.
Mental Health
Current Awareness Updates
Advancing mental health equalities strategy.
NHS England; 2020.
[This strategy summarises the core actions that we all need to take to bridge the gaps for communities fairing worse than others in mental health services. It is also an important element of the overall NHS plans to accelerate action to address health inequalities in the next stage of responding to COVID-19.]
Children and young people’s mental health review: findings from a questionnaire to health and wellbeing boards on local actions.
Care Quality Commission (CQC); 2020.
[Follow up of a 2018 review looking at the quality of, and access to, mental health services for children and young people. It sets out the findings of a 2019 independent follow-up self-assessment questionnaire, to find out the extent to which health and wellbeing board areas in England had progressed with implementing the local recommendations made.]
Mental health rehabilitation inpatient services: 2019 update.
Care Quality Commission (CQC); 2020.
[Updated findings from 114 mental health rehabilitation inpatient providers about patients that were occupying a mental health bed at the time of the information request. Questions included number of beds, current number of patients and their distance from home, funding and number of locked wards.]
Assessment of mental health services in acute trusts.
Care Quality Commission (CQC); 2020.
[Findings from over 100 acute hospital inspections, how well the mental health care needs of patients were met and where trusts, and the wider system, need to improve.]
MeeTwo mental health app: case study.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; 2020.
[The app provides safe, fully-moderated peer support to 40,000 young people aged 11 to 25 across the UK. The free app enables users to anonymously share their feelings and help each other in a safe, moderated digital environment. Peer support has been shown to improve quality of life, wellbeing, self-esteem and social functioning, as well as reductions in hospital admission rates and use of hospital emergency services.]