Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the efficacy of the web-based guided, 9-month, cognitive-behavioral aftercare program IN@ for women with BN following inpatient treatment.
Conclusions: Hazardous alcohol consumption appears to be a key factor of the dropout rate in a Web-based alcohol intervention study. Thus, it is important to develop strategies to keep participants who are at high risk in Web-based interventions.
This study examined job endings and work trajectories among participants in a study comparing the effects of adding cognitive remediation to supported employment among individuals who had not benefited from supported employment.. Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP- Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
The CPFT study is the first of its kind to provide evidence of the value of Young People’s Panels, which are widely used across the country, but little has been know about their effectiveness until now.
The research by Sophie Allan and Dr Emma Hill from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) was presented at the annual conference of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology in Liverpool on 18 January.
Despite the importance of labour supply of social care staff for both meeting demand for social care services and delivering good quality services through adequate staffing and continuity of care, there is little evidence on what drives recruitment and retention in social care.
This paper analyses job satisfaction and differences in factors affecting it among workers with an intellectual disability and mental illness (MI) depending on their work regime [special employment regime (SER) or occupational service (OS)]. To do so, answers were analysed from 874 participants on a Job Satisfaction Scale used in sheltered workshops in Spain.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Using an interactionist perspective to test on‐the‐job embeddedness and off‐the‐job embeddedness as possible moderators for the predictive effects of job satisfaction and job stress on nurses’ turnover intentions.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Current research on employment options for people with Intellectual Disability emphasizes the importance of employee needs and satisfaction. The study aims at systematically reviewing the literature on job satisfaction and related constructs. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
The ‘Job Well Done’ initiative has been launched at the Trust’s Swallownest Court Adult Mental Health Unit to provide a programme of vocational support for patients to gain and retain work.
Today marks a significant milestone in the campaign for carers of people with dementia who are admitted to hospital to be welcomed to visit them at any time or stay with them. This fast-growing campaign has now been officially endorsed by NHS England in its newly published Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) payment framework for 2016-17, which will offer financial rewards to healthcare providers who apply the principles espoused by John’s Campaign.
Visitors can try apple pressing when they visit the farm shop and horticulture project run by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust on 25 and 26 October between 10am and 4pm.
Two of Nottingham’s largest employers are combining their strengths to develop innovative solutions that help address major issues facing mental health and community services.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare and Nottingham Trent University have signed a strategic partnership agreement in order to cooperate more closely and address the challenges that the NHS is currently facing. Work will be undertaken to share knowledge and experience in a wide range of areas such as skills and talent development, student support, empowering people approaches, research and innovation, and the mutual use of facilities and equipment.
One area of focus will be workforce recruitment, retention and skills development. The University will work with the Trust to develop new pathways to enable individuals to convert or upgrade their skills. In turn, this will enable students to carry out specific project work as well as undertake work placements and experience within the Trust, leading to enhanced employment opportunities.
With increasing diversity in therapeutic dyads, there has been renewed attention to the process of ‘joining’ in cross-cultural encounters. Inspired by discourse analysis, we conducted a close reading of therapy transcripts between a Pakistani immigrant mother-daughter dyad and a Canadian white female therapist in an outpatient clinic. Our findings illustrate detailed discursive interactions for joining techniques – selective joining, confirmation, and tracking – (1) where the therapist facilitates joining moments with the family and (2) where the same techniques are used to preclude further exploration of the family's cultural views. Consequently, the joining process is at times limited by the therapist's enactment of her own assumptions about the family's culture. Due to the doxic nature of cultural assumptions, a discursive analysis may help to prevent therapists from silencing their clients’ cultural voices and to be more reflexive of their assumptions, thus promoting joining. 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.
The Joining the Dots team has co-created a selection of digital solutions with teams of dedicated service users, carers and staff in Bristol Mental Health (BMH). This software aims to help mental health services to work in an integrated way, using health data and information to improve care for the people who need it most.
oining the Dots is a range of digital tools that has been developed with teams of dedicated service users, carers and staff in Bristol Mental Health (BMH). These tools help mental health services to work in an integrated way, using health data and information to improve care for the people who need it most.
A new joint report from the Royal College of GPs and the British Geriatrics Society has been published today, showcasing how GPs and geriatricians are collaborating to design and lead innovative schemes to improve the provision of integrated care for older people with frailty.
Advancements in medicine are a great success story, and as a result our patients are living longer, but they are also increasingly living with multiple, long term conditions and that brings a number of challenges for general practice and the wider NHS.
The new model of care for low and medium secure adult mental health services aims to provide care closer to home and reduce the need for hospital admissions and out-of-area treatments.
The NHS trusts making up the network, along with Southern Health, are: Oxford Health (who led the bid); Berkshire Healthcare; Central and Northwest London; Solent; and Dorset HealthCare; along with Response, a charity that provides home-based mental health care.
Both rare copy number variants (CNVs) and common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) contribute to liability to schizophrenia, but their etiological relationship has not been fully elucidated. The authors evaluated an additive model whereby risk of schizophrenia requires less contribution from common SNPs in the presence of a rare CNV, and tested for interactions. . Login at top right hand side of page using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens for full text.
A joint declaration has been published on post diagnostic dementia care and support.
It is based on a recognition that people living with the effects of dementia and their families and carers have a need for the right information and support so they can live as fulfilling lives as possible, prepare for the future and their preferences for end of life are acted upon.
NHS England and the Equality and Human Rights Commission are hosting a series of seminars across the country to support organisations in the NHS to meet the Public Sector Equality Duty, and to discuss initiatives such as EDS2, the Workforce Disability Equality Standard and the Learning Disabilities Employment Programme.
Psychological Medicine; Cambridge Vol. 49, Iss. 13, (Oct 2019): 2158-2167. DOI:10.1017/S0033291718002982
Background
Normative and pathological personality traits have rarely been integrated into a joint large-scale structural analysis with psychiatric disorders, although a recent study suggested they entail a common individual differences continuum.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Anxiety disorders (AD) are very prevalent in the elderly, tend to compromise quality of life, and generate substantial costs. Considering that the prevention and early detection of anxiety may be relevant to increase health gains in older adults, it would be of great interest to identify whether the joint hypermobility syndrome (JHS) is also related to anxiety disorders in this age range. 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.
This cross-sectional study evaluated associations of joint hypermobility and multiple joint osteoarthritis (MJOA) in a community-based cohort of adults 45+ years of age. Open Access
In 2013 the Mental Health Partnership Board (MHPB) was formed to develop best practice and partnership between the Met Police and Mental Health Services in London. One of only two stated priorities was to reduce the number of times people in crisis are taken into police custody when in need of a safe space – the figures now average less than one person a month.
“Our ambition was to work with the police to stop the practice of taking people in mental distress to police cells and instead ensure they are taken to an appropriate environment to assess their needs and give them access to the right support quickly.” says Maria Kane, a member of the Cavendish Square Group and the lead liaison between the NHS in the capital and the Metropolitan Police.
Local Safeguarding Children Boards and member agencies can use this guidance to understand how inspections are conducted. They may also find it useful when carrying out self evaluations or improvement planning.
Joint targeted area inspections include a ‘deep dive’ investigation – an evaluation of children and young people’s experiences. This changes periodically to investigate different themes in detail. The theme for May to December 2017 is response to children experiencing neglect.
Following recent publicity relating to fitness to practise cases regarding resuscitation we felt it was important to clarify the current position. Clear new guidance was developed jointly in 2016 by the Resuscitation Council, BMA and RCN called ‘Decisions relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation’. The NMC is supportive of this guidance.
The Health Innovation Network AHSN, NICE recognised Joint Pain Advisor intervention is a safe and cost effective alternative to GP consultations.
Involving a series of face-to-face consultations, Advisors work collaboratively with people with hip and/or knee osteoarthritis and/or back pain, focusing on supporting self-management.
Using behavioural change techniques Advisors work with individuals to discuss their lifestyle, challenges and goals, and begin to alter people’s health beliefs about joint pain and impact on healthy behaviour and lifestyles.
The Boards of the three trusts within the Transforming Care Together (TCT) partnership* have agreed, after careful consideration, that the integration of the three trusts into one organisation will now not happen.
James MacCabe on recent study of the association of combined patterns of tobacco and cannabis use in adolescents who go on to experience psychotic symptoms.
With the creation of the first fully integrated post at director level, the new role builds on the existing partnership between the county council and local mental health trust which sees social workers from the council operate as part of integrated mental health teams.
The new Joint Targeted Area Inspections of services for vulnerable children and young people (JTAI) will launch this year, involving CQC, Ofsted, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP).
From February, all four inspectorates will jointly assess how local authorities, the police, health, probation and youth offending services are working together in an area to identify, support and protect vulnerable children and young people.
Today we have published an updated version of our joint working protocol.
This sets out how we works with councils, and updates a version signed in 2011.
Working with councils help us regulate health and adult social care in England. This in turn which promotes high quality care and drives improvement. Our working relationship involves sharing information and taking coordinated action over health or adult social care providers.
Our resource is designed to support clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and local authorities in England to effectively commission palliative care for children and young people aged 0–25.
Social care settings provide a complex landscape for systemic psychotherapists, particularly in relation to issues of power that are particularly pervasive. Conversation Analysis (CA) was used as a research method to understand the detail of how systemic psychotherapists and parents work together in the safeguarding context. The study aimed to examine the power issues arising, and how they were being managed.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
esterday we published a blog about a recent systematic review of social media interventions for people with schizophrenia by Chris O’Sullivan. Today we’re following it up with this personal view by mental health campaigner Jonny Benjamin.
A letter in a leading journal has sparked controversy by claiming that Indian alternative medicines for diabetes are “maximum hype, minimum science.” To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
To gain insight into the quantity and quality of spiritual care provided by nurses in curative cancer care, from the perspectives of both patients and nurses. 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.
‘Journeying through dementia’ will test the effectiveness of a manualised self-management intervention and has been designed to improve the quality of life for people in the early stages of dementia.
Objective: The goal of this work was to provide an overview of the practices implemented for the assessment of stroke patients and cognitive rehabilitation. This study puts together traditional methods and the most recent personalized platforms based on ICT technologies and Internet of Things.
The aim of our study was to evaluate how therapists use upper limb movement information visualized on a dashboard to support the rehabilitation process
This study resonates with previous research that has highlighted the importance of involving end users in the design process. The study suggests that having a single solution for stroke rehabilitation or assistance could be challenging or even impossible, and thus, engineers should clearly identify the targeted stroke population needs before the design of any device for the upper extremity.
Objective: The aim of our study was to review the state of the art of technologies for persons with dementia regarding issues on development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics in 3 fields of application of technologies: (1) support with managing everyday life, (2) support with participating in pleasurable and meaningful activities, and (3) support with dementia health and social care provision. The study also aimed to identify gaps in the evidence and challenges for future research.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the Hinge Health 12-week digital care program (DCP) for Chronic Knee Pain on knee pain and function, with secondary outcomes of surgery interest and satisfaction, at 12 weeks and 6 months after starting the program.
Conclusions: Very few of the available apps have been validated in peer-reviewed studies. Of the apps that have been validated, further independent research is required to fully understand their accuracy at detecting ear and hearing conditions.
A judge has criticised Greenwich council for not considering placing two children with their aunt as part of care planning in a case that saw them adopted.
The guidance comes months after a judgment by Sir James Munby, which highlighted persistent social work failings and misuse of voluntary section 20 arrangements. Munby issued guidance on the correct use of the arrangement at the time, and Judge Bellamy has expanded on the practical implications for practitioners.
This preliminary analysis assesses how judges view the use of behavioral genetics evidence on genetic influences to mental disorders in court. Twenty-one semi-structured interviews, analyzed using constant comparative analysis, were conducted with California trial court judges. Most judges reported the beneficial effects of this evidence being presented in court, particularly as a mitigating factor for sentencing. Yet some judges viewed it as an aggravating factor and expressed concerns about genetic privacy. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Given the crisis in recruitment into psychiatry, I wanted to hear how a group of CT1 and CT2 psychiatrists perceived their chosen specialty. Could they recommend it?
From September the newly revamped NHS Choices will become NHS.uk and the gateway to order repeat prescriptions, book appointments, register for a GP and find a pharmacy.
By the same date NHS.uk is also due to become the route for individuals to be able to access their GP records.
Round-up of latest research and reading including: Developing nursing leadership talent (SE England); managing talent in the NHS; using band 4 roles to overcome workforce supply challenges; how can the NHS become a millennial friendly employer; development of England-wide nursing director talent pipeline; 'Our Time' female talent development scheme; state of play in European coaching and mentoring; facilitating learning in practice - free OU learning; systematic review of executive coaching outcomes; accelerated coaching intervention for nursing leadership development; supporting nurse mentor development
Items listed include: Views of 1st time NHS CEOs; lack of medical CEOs in NHS; 25 women leaders in UK healthcare; leadership events; the ideal hospital-based medical leader; research on quality improvement in five European countries; nurse practitioner views on leadership and research; informal clinical leadership as a catalyst for improving patient care quality and job satisfaction; super-hero to super-connector - changing leadership culture in the NHS; narrowing gender pay gap in NHS foundation trusts; best fit between leadership style and team-member interdependencies; mobilising evidence to improve nursing practice; facial expressions of authenticity; developing emerging leaders to support team-based primary care; does having been mentored affect subsequent mentoring?; impact of a compassionate care leadership programme; mindful leader development; exploring leadership drivers and blockers. Please contact the library if you'd like to read the full text of any of the articles in this resource.
There is a physical inactivity pandemic around the world despite the known benefits of engaging in physical activity. This is true for individuals who would receive notable benefits from physical activity, in particular those with mood disorders. In this study, we explored the factors that facilitate and impede engagement in physical activity for individuals with a mood disorder. The intent was to understand the key features of a community based physical activity program for these individuals.
Psychological Medicine; Cambridge Vol. 49, Iss. 13, (Oct 2019): 2256-2266. DOI:10.1017/S0033291718003197
Background
Jumping to conclusions (JTC), which is the proneness to require less information before forming beliefs or making a decision, has been related to formation and maintenance of delusions. Using data from the National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre Genetics and Psychosis (GAP) case–control study of first-episode psychosis (FEP), we set out to test whether the presence of JTC would predict poor clinical outcome at 4 years.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Round-up of latest leadership news and research. Includes: leadership and creativity in public services; leadership styles and outcome patterns for the nursing workforce and work environment; daily transformational leadership and employee job crafting; leadership and generations at work; antecedents, mediators and outcomes of authentic leadership in healthcare; good leadership requires organisational alignment;
Latest documents and articles on leadership include: report on need for more diverse leadership in the NHS; report on gender-related barriers to and facilitators of nurse leadership; flexible working arrangements; leadership survey: organisational culture is key to better health care; values-based leadership in health care; informal clinical leadership as catalyst for improving patient care quality and job satisfaction; three-roles model of responsible leadership; relationship between exclusive talent management, perceived organisational justice and employee engagement; pathway to leader emergence in self-managed work groups; gender differences in how leaders determine succession potential;
Letter. Junior doctors provide service to the NHS while learning under supervision. As employees, they are salaried to serve their patients. As learners, they must strike a balance between training and service provision over five or more years of postgraduate education. The Secretary of State for Health recently expressed his concern that juniors must not ‘miss out on training because of service pressures’ and committed to improve ‘working lives and training experience’.1 The ongoing review of the 2016 Junior Doctors Contract seeks to tackle these issues.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Letter. Junior doctors provide service to the NHS while learning under supervision. As employees, they are salaried to serve their patients. As learners, they must strike a balance between training and service provision over five or more years of postgraduate education. The Secretary of State for Health recently expressed his concern that juniors must not ‘miss out on training because of service pressures’ and committed to improve ‘working lives and training experience’.1 The ongoing review of the 2016 Junior Doctors Contract seeks to tackle these issues.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
JuniorReviews.com is a novel social enterprise, developed, led, and funded by junior doctors.
It aims to:
a.) improve the provision of relevant information for junior doctors deciding where to work and train;
b.) collate and publish real-time, online, training feedback – which would otherwise be lost to medical education providers and commissioners;
c.) raise the profile of medical education and training in general, while promoting transparency and innovation; and
d.) provide an opportunity for engagement between junior doctors, and the organisations they work in.
The aim of this article is to analyse juridification and standardisation as two legal dimensions influencing contemporary child-protection work, and to discuss its implications for practice. We provide a framework for how the concepts of juridification and standardisation might be understood and analytically differentiated, drawing on theoretical discussions within both socio-legal and social work literature. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
The purpose of this paper is to review safeguarding adult reviews (SARs) pertaining to individuals with acquired brain injury (ABI) since 2014. This extended literature review also explores the lessons and recommendations from these reviews in relation to social work practice within the UK. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
This study shows an association between increased intake of individual saturated fats and increased risk of coronary heart disease.
It also shows a link between the replacement of these fatty acids with other types of fat, plant protein, or wholegrain carbohydrates and a reduction in coronary heart disease risk.
The strengths of this study are the large sample size and long follow-up period that looked at repeated measures such as diet, lifestyle and health outcomes.
Limitations also found with the study
The study adds to the evidence that smoking increases the risk of serious conditions like heart disease and stroke, even if you smoke only a few cigarettes a day.
Importantly, the study doesn’t tell us if people’s sedentary behaviour led to them getting diabetes, or whether people became more sedentary after getting diabetes. However, it provides more evidence that spending a lot of time physically inactive is likely to be bad for our health.
In the UK, SSIs could be a useful first-line treatment that GPs and schools could signpost young people to, with the advantage that they could access them right away and at a time and place that fits in with their lives. SSIs could also be useful whilst waiting for other help, and for those young people who are reluctant to talk to people about their difficulties. Whilst SSIs are in no way a replacement for longer-term therapies (nor are self-help approaches a replacement for therapist facilitated help), this addition could enable help-seeking sooner and could reach people who will never otherwise get any help at all.
Social media users now have a new way of finding out about the latest news and information from NHS commissioners across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.A new Twitter account - @StaffsCCGs – will combine news and information from the area’s six clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). Previously the CCGs had separate accounts.
Journal Scan. A single physical workout can give the heart immediate protection against cardiovascular disease.
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Simulation-based training and assessment in healthcare are now commonplace in the majority of industrialised nations. The role of standardised patients, high-fidelity and low-fidelity manikins, synthetic, animal and virtual reality platforms, and simulation suites, are accepted, and integrated into training curricula in medical and nursing schools, and residency programmes. Despite this widespread use, only a handful of studies have assessed the impact of simulation-based education on patient and health system outcomes, and these studies have their focus on procedural skills such as central line insertion or laparoscopic surgery.1 2 To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The American Journal of Occupational Therapy; Bethesda Vol. 72, Iss. 1, (Jan/Feb 2018): 1-6.
Occupational therapy practitioners have addressed the functional performance of humans since the profession's inception in 1917 (Meyer, 1922). Because of this early heritage, occupational therapy should take a prominent place in crafting and implementing functional measurements to be used in PAC settings to ensure accurate reporting of patient functional capacity and needs....... To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Open access. This review considers juvenile delinquency and justice from an international perspective. Youth crime is a growing concern. Many young offenders are also victims with complex needs, leading to a public health approach that requires a balance of welfare and justice models. However, around the world there are variable and inadequate legal frameworks and a lack of a specialist workforce. The UK and other high-income countries worldwide have established forensic child and adolescent psychiatry, a multifaceted discipline incorporating legal, psychiatric and developmental fields. Its adoption of an evidence-based therapeutic intervention philosophy has been associated with greater reductions in recidivism compared with punitive approaches prevalent in some countries worldwide, and it is therefore a superior approach to dealing with the problem of juvenile delinquency.
Kaizen, or continuous improvement, lies at the core of lean. Kaizen is implemented through practices that enable employees to propose ideas for improvement and solve problems. The aim of this study is to describe the types of issues and improvement suggestions that hospital employees feel empowered to address through kaizen practices in order to understand when and how kaizen is used in healthcare. Open Access Article
Editorial. Kawasaki disease (KD) is now the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children and is becoming more common worldwide. Despite this, some medical practitioners in the UK may be unaware of the disorder and of its potential long-term cardiac complications, which for those affected require a specialist, and uninterrupted lifetime clinical management.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The ‘Keep Antibiotics Working’ campaign returns to alert the public to the risks of antibiotic resistance, urging them to always take their doctor, nurse or healthcare professional’s advice on antibiotics.