Health Education England has worked with UCLPartners and NHS mental and physical health experts to develop a suite of educational material for use across primary and secondary NHS health settings.
“Breaking Down the Barriers” aims to support education across the NHS workforce by providing the training materials to enhance existing skills, increase knowledge for early recognition, assessment, management and signposting of mental and physical health needs of patients.
People with learning disabilities have poorer health and die younger than other people. Good support can help people with learning disabilities have better health and better lives.
This event will include information about the Health Charter for Social Care Providers. There will be practical guidance on how social care providers and staff can have an important role in helping people access good healthcare and lead a healthy lifestyle.
This event is aimed at family members and professionals who provide care and support for people with learning disabilities.
This video, presented as a short documentary, focuses on the importance of physical health in relation to treating people with mental health conditions. It includes prominent health professionals, psychiatrists and case studies.
Nutrition interventions would appear fundamental for weight management and cardiometabolic risk reduction in people experiencing severe mental illness (SMI). Comprehensive evaluation of nutrition interventions is lacking. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
People with serious mental illness (SMI) are more likely to engage in health risk behaviours such as unhealthy eating, physical inactivity and smoking. The review by Teasdale et al in this issue shows the potential for nutrition interventions to help people with SMI to manage their weight. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Innovative “Physical Health Skills Passports” document the specific training the Trust’s nurses now undergo in assessing and treating physical health conditions such as diabetes and lung disease, which are significantly more prevalent in serious mental health conditions.
Waddiloves, in Bradford, specialises in helping people with learning disabilities that struggle to access mainstream services, to have their physical health needs met.
Lesley Taylor, clinic lead nurse for the health facilitation team at Waddiloves, said: “We saw that people with learning disabilities that found it difficult to get to routine appointments were not having their health needs met and health conditions that were easily treatable were being missed or going untreated.
“Waddiloves health clinic allows us to plan treatment with a number of specialists all in once place, meaning we can carry our more than one treatment at the same time which is useful for people who might have anxieties towards accessing treatment, such as having their eyes or ears checked, as they only need to attend the once
These registered mental health nurses are working as wellbeing practitioners in teams with social workers, pharmacists, physiotherapists, care support workers, voluntary services and GPs.
Our practitioners will see people in their own homes or residential care homes, to help reduce referrals into secondary care or hospital for people with mental ill health including dementia, delirium and depression.
As well as providing mental health care, they’ll also carry out some standard wound care and physical health care checks, and support people with long term conditions. The practitioners will also help to educate other health staff in the community care teams, such as district nurses and healthcare support workers, about mental health issues.
CNWL’s Shine project has been published as good practice on the NICE website.
The link to the story - Improving the physical health of people with serious mental illness: A quality improvement approach is here: https://www.nice.org.uk/sharedlearning/improving-the-physical-health-of-people-with-serious-mental-illness-a-quality-improvement-approach
A CNWL project that aims to improve the physical health of people with severe mental health problems has won a prestigious award.
The SHINE project, which has also been recognised as an example of good practice by NICE, won this year’s Project of the Year category during the Trust’s Annual Gem and Long Service Awards, held on Thursday in Central London.
This article examines an important nursing role in hospital that tries to prevent re-admissions for alcohol-related illnesses. This role has developed over the last 10 years and is now present in most hospitals in England. This article describes a service in a hospital in Islington, London and examines the patient cohort. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
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Surveys are available for each topic, so you can vote for titles that you think the library should purchase and also suggest additional titles.
Individuals with schizophrenia die ∼15–20 years prematurely compared to the general population, mostly due to cardiovascular disease, obesity-related cancer, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.1 Owing to the known metabolic effects of antipsychotics,2 clarifying their role in increased mortality is important. Paradoxically, prior studies in schizophrenia have suggested a relative decrement in mortality with moderate antipsychotic doses compared to no antipsychotic exposure. Cohort studies have indicated an elevated mortality risk with benzodiazepines in several populations, but adjustment for other treatment variables has been limited. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Diabetes mellitus contributes to excessive cardiovascular deaths and reduced life expectancy in schizophrenia. This population-based cohort study investigated the endogenous risk for diabetes in antipsychotic-naive schizophrenia and evaluated the risks added by starting antipsychotic treatment in people with schizophrenia. : Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Objective To explore pressure area related pain as a predictor of category ≥2 pressure ulcer (PU) development.
Conclusions This is the first study to assess pain as a predictor of category ≥2 PU development. In all 4 models, pain emerged as a risk factor associated with an increased probability of category ≥2 PU development. Open Access Article
Individuals with schizophrenia die ∼15–20 years prematurely compared to the general population, mostly due to cardiovascular disease, obesity-related cancer, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.1 Owing to the known metabolic effects of antipsychotics,2 clarifying their role in increased mortality is important. Paradoxically, prior studies in schizophrenia have suggested a relative decrement in mortality with moderate antipsychotic doses compared to no antipsychotic exposure. Cohort studies have indicated an elevated mortality risk with benzodiazepines in several populations, but adjustment for other treatment variables has been limited. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The optimal management of hypertension in people with dementia is uncertain. This review explores if people with dementia experience greater adverse effects from antihypertensive medications, if cognitive function is protected or worsened by controlling blood pressure (BP) and if there are subgroups of people with dementia for whom antihypertensive therapy is more likely to be harmful. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.