Category: Primary Mental Health Care

Covid 19 and Mental Health

The parallel pandemic

Source: Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) and NIHR

This report, produced together with the northern National Institute for Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaborations (NIHR ARCs), shows that a parallel pandemic of mental ill health has hit the north of England with a £2 billion cost to the country at the same time as the Covid-19 pandemic. Mental health in England was hit badly over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. But people in the north performed significantly worse in their mental health outcomes compared to those in the rest of the country.

Library Bulletin

Mental Illness and Primary Care

The mental illness and primary care current awareness bulletin, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download.

Mental-health-and-Primary-Care-Bulletin-March-2021Download

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

Toolkit

Remote working for general practices and primary care networks

Source: The King’s Fund

This toolkit is aimed at leaders in general practice. That doesn’t just mean GPs or partners, but all staff in the position of supporting others and making change. It provides insight, tips and guidance for getting the best out of the increasing options for teams to work separately from each other and at different locations, with colleagues simultaneously at home, in the practice, and elsewhere.

It provides support to answer the following questions:

Toolkit

Inclusion health self-assessment tool for primary care networks.

Friends, Families and Travellers; 2021

This online tool aims to help primary care networks (PCNs) to assess their engagement with inclusion health groups. These are the groups identified as experiencing the worst health inequalities in the UK. The tool will provide a unique and tailored guide that will help PCNs to embed action on tackling health inequalities into their everyday activities

Mental Health

Mental health and primary care networks: understanding the opportunities

The establishment of primary care networks (PCNs) is one of the most important reforms to primary care in England in recent years. This report, published jointly by The King’s Fund and the Centre for Mental Health, explores the opportunities the emergence of these new networks creates for improving the support and treatment provided to people with mental health needs in primary care, and describes why such improvement is badly needed.