Library Bulletins

Mental health current awareness

The current bulletins for Bipolar DisorderSerious Mental IllnessCommunity Mental Health and Perinatal Mental Health, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health 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

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Eating Disorders

The current bulletin for Eating Disorders, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download here

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Occupational Therapy and Mental Health

The current bulletin for Occupational Therapy and Mental Health, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download here

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Forensic Psychiatry

The current bulletin for Forensic Psychiatry, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download here

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Arts and Wellbeing

The current bulletin for Arts and Wellbeing, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download here

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Covid 19

Current awareness updates

Original Research

Factors influencing self-harm thoughts and behaviours over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: Longitudinal analysis of 49 324 adults.
Paul E. British Journal of Psychiatry 2022;220(1):31-37.
[Conclusions: Findings suggest that a significant portion of UK adults may be at increased risk for self-harm thoughts and behaviours during the pandemic. Given the likelihood that the economic and social consequences of the pandemic will accumulate, policy makers can begin adapting evidence-based suicide prevention strategies and other social policies to help mitigate its consequences.]

COVID-19: stepdown of infection control precautions and discharging patients to home settings.
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA); 2022.
[17 January 2022: Updated to reflect change in isolation period in hospitals from 14 to 10 days for cases and contacts of cases of COVID-19, as well as clarification of isolation period for severely immunocompromised patients.]

COVID-19: management of staff and exposed patients and residents in health and social care settings.
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA); 2022.
[17 January 2022: Updated to reflect change in isolation period in hospitals from 14 to 10 days for cases and contacts of cases of COVID-19 and includes new changes to self-isolation periods for staff in health and care settings.]

COVID-19: infection prevention and control (IPC)
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA); 2022.
[17 January 2022: Updated to reflect change in isolation period in hospitals from 14 to 10 days for cases and contacts of cases of COVID-19.]

Preventing and controlling outbreaks of COVID-19 in prisons and places of detention.
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA); 2022.
[17 January 2022: Updated information on: ending self-isolation for prisoners/detainees and staff who test positive for COVID-19; testing information for staff and prisoners/detainees who are identified as a contact; return to work criteria for staff who test positive for COVID-19 or who are identified as a contact; visitors to prisons.]

Daily Insight: Vax to the future.
HSJ: Health Service Journal (Daily Insight) 2022;:7031723.
[The expiry date on some batches of the Pfizer covid vaccine supplies has been extended to 45 days, following concerns that large quantities would be wasted. Also: LSE research finds no significant relationship between the number of managers or the amount spent on management and the quality of NHS hospital services. 18 January.]





Public Health

Current awareness updates

Campaigning to eliminate drink spiking.
Stamp Out Spiking UK; 2022.
[This campaign offers anti-drink spiking resources and solutions that help people to stay safe, with a mission to raise awareness and promote personal safety issues, by providing people with information and a practical means of protecting themselves, and ultimately, to stamp out drink spiking.]

Delivering safe, face-to-face adult day care.
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE); 2022.
[Supporting care managers, social workers, commissioners and providers, with activities. The latest updates to the guidance include: Infection control and testing; vaccination information; and changes to restrictions due to Omicron.]

Recent increase in group B meningococcal disease among teenagers and young adults.
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA); 2022.
[Teenagers and young adults are urged to look out for symptoms and check that they have received all routine vaccinations. Recent data and analysis shows that in autumn 2021 there was an increase in the number of cases of meningococcal disease in teenagers and young adults, mainly caused by group B meningococcal disease (MenB) – with the majority among university students.]

Focusing on men’s health: it’s time for a national strategy.
Baker P. British Journal of Nursing 2022;31(1):50-51.
[It is surely time for a men’s health strategy in the UK. Or, rather, a strategy for each of the UK’s nations. Seven other countries—including our nearest neighbour, Ireland—already have men’s health strategies or policies. The UK Government has also signed up to World Health Organization (WHO) Europe’s regional men’s health strategy (WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2018). A Women’s Health Plan for Scotland was published in August and a women’s health strategy for England is being developed.]

Stop Abuse Together.
Cabinet Office; 2022.
[Tool to help parents, carers, teachers or other professionals working with children, to spot the potential signs of child sexual abuse and where to go for support. This website brings together advice and resources to help you keep the children in your life safe.]

Library Bulletin

Learning Disabilities

The current bulletin for Learning Disabilities, produced by Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust, is now available to view and download.

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