With thanks to our colleagues at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation trust the latest Neurorehabilitation and Neuropsychiatry Bulletin is now available to view and download. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account. Please get in touch for support with this: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.
Category: Physical Health
Neurorehabilitation and Neuropsychiatry Bulletin July 2024
With thanks to our colleagues at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation trust the latest Neurorehabilitation and Neuropsychiatry Bulletin is now available to view and download. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account. Please get in touch for support with this: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.
British Medical Association Report
The country is getting sicker: The urgent need to address growing health inequalities and protect our health in the face of an economic crisis.
This report contains anonymous testimonials from doctors, patients,
and carers across the UK about their experiences of a country that is
getting sicker in the face of an economic crisis.
Read the report here.
ICD-11
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)
The ICD provides a common language that allows health professionals to share standardised information across the world. It is the foundation for identifying health trends and statistics worldwide, containing around 17 000 unique codes for injuries, diseases and causes of death, underpinned by more than 120 000 codable terms. By using code combinations, more than 1.6 million clinical situations can now be coded.
Compared with previous versions, ICD-11 is entirely digital with a new user-friendly format and multilingual capabilities that reduce the chance of error. It has been compiled and updated with input from over 90 countries and unprecedented involvement of health-care providers, enabling evolution from a system imposed on clinicians into a truly enabling clinical classification and terminology database that serves a broad range of uses for recording and reporting statistics on health.
Click here to use ICD-11.
Public Health
Current Awareness Updates
Tackling mental health disparities.
Centre for Mental Health; 2022.
(The pandemic is accompanied by a rise in demand for mental health services. Even before the pandemic, mental ill health was one of the most prevalent forms of illness. Inequalities mean that while it is true that anyone can experience mental illness, the risks are much higher for certain groups who experience structural discrimination and disadvantage. Tackling mental health disparities shares ten evidence-based actions that the Government could take in the forthcoming white paper.)
Grassroots participation in sport and physical activity.
National Audit Office (NAO); 2022.
(This report examines how far the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Sport England have achieved value for money in their spending on grassroots sport and physical activity amongst those aged 16 and over, and have supported value for money in the system-wide spending across government. We consider the decade since the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with a particular focus on the period since 2015, when government launched its Sporting Future strategy.)
Menopause and the workplace: how to enable fulfilling working lives: government response Department for work and pensions; July 2022 This report lays out the government’s response to the recommendations made in the independent report Menopause and the workplace, published in November 2021. This report aimed to bring about comprehensive change and support for those experiencing the menopause, in key areas of government policy, employer practice, and wider societal and financial change.
The rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine programme in England House of Commons Comittee of Public Accounts; July 2022 This report calls for efforts to be redoubled to reach those not vaccinated or fully vaccinated as it warns that nearly three million adults in England are unvaccinated against Covid-19. It finds that comparatively low vaccination rates persist in many vulnerable groups and have even dropped further for some. It calls for NHS England and UKHSA to urgently evaluate which methods are most effective for increasing uptake, including fresh approaches to tackle the persistent low uptake observed in some ethnic groups.
Creating a smoke-free South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw integrated care system NHS Confederation; June 2022 This case study details a smoking cessation programme in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw that aims to saves lives, decrease health inequalities and reduce hospital re-admissions by making effective treatment for tobacco addiction part of the routine care offered in hospitals.
Library Bulletin
Making Every Contact Count
The June edition of the ‘Making Every Contact Count’ is now available to view and download. This edition features articles around smoking cessation, healthy weight, healthy eating, physical exercise and alcohol- with particular emphasis on how coronavirus has impacted upon these key aspects.
Some articles are free to read and download, others may require an Open Athens account. If you are struggling to access any of the full text links or require support with your Open Athens account, please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
Public Health
Current Awareness Updates
Improving inclusion in health and care research: reflections and next steps.
HSR UK; 2022.
(In autumn 2021 HSR UK, the Nuffield Trust, The King’s Fund, The Health Foundation and PPI representatives from The Health Foundation Inclusion Panel co-developed a series of events to address improving inclusion in health and care research. This report shares insights from the expert speakers who participated in events, as well as reflections and learnings from running the series.)
Key findings from Healthwatch England’s national dental polling in 2022.
Healthwatch; 2022.
(A representative poll of 2,026 adults based in England on attitudes to NHS dentistry shows that half of the adults in England find dental charges unfair amid escalating living costs. More than two in five respondents (40 per cent) said they found it difficult to book an NHS dental appointment, while one in five (20 per cent) couldn’t access all the treatments they needed. Healthwatch England has warned decision-makers that NHS dentistry is in desperate need of reform.)
Smoking and social housing: Supporting residents, addressing inequalities.
Housing Learning and Improvement Network (HLIN); 2022.
(This report is a collaboration between Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and the Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN). It outlines the case for reducing rates of smoking in the social housing sector as part of social landlords’ health and wellbeing activities and the action needed to achieve this.)
A picture of health? Bridging the gap between physical and mental healthcare in adult mental health inpatient settings.
National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD); 2022.
(This report suggests that a physical health care plan should be developed when patients are admitted to a mental health inpatient setting. Other key messages aimed at improving care include calls to: formalise clinical networks/pathways between mental health and physical health care; involve patients and their carers in their physical health care, and include mental health and physical health conditions on electronic patient records.)
The Impact of Dementia on Women.
Alzheimer’s Research UK; 2022.
(This report calls for action to tackle dementia’s disproportionate impact on women and to ensure women can make a full contribution to research, both as participants and as researchers.)
Library Bulletin
Physical Health and Mental Illness
With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust the April bulletin for physical health and mental illness is now available to view and download.
The links to abstracts have been activated in this bulletin and if you click on the title, it will lead you to the abstract.
Some of the references contained in the bulletin may be an Open Access reference, which will be available for you download and some may be available to download via a LSCFT Athens Account login. Some of the references may be an abstract only, and the full text will have to be requested directly from the library- please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk with your request. .
Podcast
What women want: addressing women’s health inequalities
Source: The King’s Fund
Host Helen McKenna speaks with Professor Dame Lesley Regan and Dr Janine Austin Clayton about women’s health journeys from start to finish. They explore why women can struggle to get medical professionals to listen to them and the impact this has on diagnosis and treatment, as well as the mental and physical effects on women themselves.
Listen to the podcast here
Free Online Event
Begin your Tai Chi journey: An introduction to essential Tai Chi skills
Source: Eventbrite, Quality of Life Now
Learning even basic Tai Chi skills can promote balance, calmness, and mental focus. Every Sunday: 11am EST (Boston, MA)
Movement is the key to maintaining mental and physical health.
This series uses seasonal training to help you develop a wide range of skills which will enhance both your mental and physical health. Introducing basic Tai Chi skills, such as posting, walking, breathing, stretching, energy work, bone tapping and hand movements.
Even outwardly simple movement when practiced correctly promote organ health, lower body strength and mental focus.
Enjoy learning at home through these weekly online lessons.
To register click here