Perinatal Mental Health

Current Awareness

With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation trust the latest Perinatal Mental Health 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.

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Public Health

Current Awareness

Are UK health systems dementia ready?: Comparing dementia policy across the four nations of the UK.
Future Health; 2024.

(A dementia diagnosis remains one of the most feared by the public. The potential arrival of new treatments creates an opportunity to improve patient outcomes. But to do so will require health systems to be dementia ready quickly. Urgent action is now needed to make them so.)
Freely available online

When I’m 64: A strategy to tackle poverty before state pension age: summary report.
Fabian Society; 2024.

(The UK is facing a hidden poverty crisis among 60 to 65-year-olds. Since 2010, no significant measures to ameliorate the impact of the rising pension age have been introduced. This report looks at the roots of the problem and presents a strategy for solving it.)
Freely available online

The future for health after Brexit.
Nuffield Trust; 2024.

(This report tracks issues that are important for the delivery of health and care in the UK to understand how our changing relationship with Europe is changing the picture for the NHS and health more generally, and what the prospects are for the future. This latest report shows that global medicine shortages are being felt particularly acutely in the UK, and the country’s reliance on migration as a source of health and social care staff is intensifying.)
Freely available online


Internet Watch Foundation Annual Report 2023: #BehindTheScreens.
Internet Watch Foundation (IWF); 2024.

(IWF works to end child sexual abuse imagery online. The annual report contains 2023 trends and data, and case studies and provides some analysis on the distribution of child sexual abuse images and videos on the internet. The new data reveals thousands of images and videos of three to six year old children who have been groomed, coerced and tricked into sexually abusive acts, are now being found on the open internet.)

On the path to ending smoking: using new funding.
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH); 2024.

(With a major opportunity to reset our local strategies and make rapid progress towards ending smoking for all populations this paper has been developed by ASH in partnership with DsPH and Humber and North Yorkshire’s Centre for Tobacco Control Excellence to support local decision making in spending new funding to address smoking. It has been reviewed and endorsed by the Association of Directors of Public Health.)

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Depression and Anxiety

April Bulletin

With thanks to our colleagues from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust please find the latest bulletin attached. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account. For support accessing any of the articles, please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Suicide Prevention and Self Harm

April Bulletin

With thanks to our colleagues from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust please find the latest bulletin attached. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account. For support accessing any of the articles, please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Library Bulletin

Serious Mental Illness

With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust, the latest edition of the serious mental illness bulletin is now available to view and download.

Some articles are freely accessible. Others may require an Open Athens login. For any support accessing any of the documents or support with your Athens account, please get in touch with academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Library Bulletin

Community Mental Health

With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, the latest edition of the Community Mental Health Bulletin is now available to view and download.

Some articles are freely accessible, others may require an Open Athens account. For any support accessing any literature please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk .

Library Bulletin

Serious Mental Illness Bulletin

With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust, the latest edition of the Serious Mental Illness Bulletin is now available to view and download.

Some articles are freely accessible, but others may require an Open Athens account. For any support accessing the articles or support with your Athens account please contact; academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Library Bulletin

Psychosis/ Schizophrenia

With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust the latest edition of psychosis and schizophrenia bulletins are now available to view and download.

Some articles may require Open Athens accounts to access. Please get in touch with the library; academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk for any support setting up an Athens account or retrieving articles.

Library Bulletin

Community Mental Health

The current bulletin for Community Mental Health, produced by our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download.

You may need an Open Athens account to access the full text articles. For any support setting this up please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Library Bulletin

Serious Mental Illness

With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust, the latest edition of the Serious Mental Illness bulletin is now available to view.

You may need an Open Athens account to read some of the literature. For support setting up an account or help accessing any of the documents please contact; academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk