New NICE guidance

 New NICE guidance has been published on the topics below:

Coeliac disease
Hepatitis B – tenofovir disoproxil fumarate
Type 2 Diabetes – newer agents (partial update of CG66)

There is also currently guidance in progress on self harm.

New Guidance

Here is some of the latest guidance, covering dual diganosis of substance misuse and mental health, the national dementia strategy, agressive challengin behaviour in people with learning difficulties, and health action planning for people with learning difficulties. 

There is also recent NICE guidance available, including ‘When to suspect child maltreament.’

The relationship between dual diagnosis: substance misuse and dealing with mental health issues

Social workers have a distinctive role to play in multi-agency work for dual diagnosis and the briefing examines this in relation to assessment, long term care and service user involvement.  

Living well with dementia: a National Dementia Strategy implementation plan

The National Dementia Strategy Implementation Plan describes the implementation task, arrangements for national and regional support, and the programmes that have been put in place to support delivery of Living well with dementia: a National Dementia Strategy. This refreshed plan replaces the one that was issued alongside the Strategy on 3 February 2009

Neuroleptics in the treatment of aggressive challenging behaviour for people with intellectual disabilities: a randomised controlled trial (NACHBID)  (Tyrer)

Health Technology Assessments 2009; 13.21

Health Action Planning and Health Facilitation for people with Learning Disabilities: Good practice guidance

The purpose of this guidance is to describe and clarify good practice in health facilitation and health action planning and support localities to make progress on this and on reducing health inequalities experienced by people with learning disabilities

Keeping up-to-date: NHS Institute Alert

There is a new current awareness bulletin, the NHS Institue Alert  which covers a number of topics from the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. From the website:

“The NHS Institute Alert is a current awareness bulletin, which highlights latest research and publications. Its aim is to provide NHS innovation and improvement leaders with the latest evidence in key improvement topics and, by doing this, improve our practice in innovation, quality, safety and change management. It includes the following topics:  

• Commissioning
• Improvement
• Innovation
• Knowledge improvement and research
• Leadership for innovation and improvement
• Management of change
• Patient safety “

Resource of the Month for July

The Leeds NHS Libraries resource of the month is MyJournals (also sometimes described as A-Z of electronic journals). 

You might have tried to access an electronic journal via Google or another search engine, and been put off when the site won’t allow you to access it, or tries to charge you. However as an NHS employee, you have free access to many journals that have been paid for by the NHS. MyJournals will help you discover what journals you have free access to and will help you access them more easily. For more information go to the Leeds NHS Libraries  site or contact the Mental Health Library on 0113 30 55652 or mentalhealthlibrary@leedspft.nhs.uk.

New NICE guidance

There is new guidance in the following areas from NICE this week:

Hepatitis B – tenofovir disoproxil fumarate

When to suspect child maltreatment

Health Needs Annual Evidence Update (Learning Disabilities)

The 2009 Annual Evidence Update on Health Needs for people with learning disabilities covers five key areas relating to the health needs of people with learning disabilities:

• Cancer
• Coronary Heart Disease
• Challenging Behaviour
• Epilepsy
• Respiratory Illness

The annual evidence update looks at all the most recent high quality evidence on this topic.

Annual Evidence Update on Homeopathy

The Complementary and Alternative Medicine Specialist Collection from NHS Evidence  have produced a new 2009 evidence update on Homeopathy. This update will provide a summary of systematic reviews, meta-analyses, RCTs and other relevant studies published in the twelve months since the 2008 AEU on Homeopathy.

New resources in the Learning Disability Library

 Here are the latest new resources from the Learning Disability Library. If you would like any further information on the resources, or to get them to sent to your workplace or the Mental Health Library, please contact learningdisabilitylibrary@leedspft.nhs.uk or 0113 30 55077.

  Comprehensive mental health practice with sex offenders and their families
 Hilarski, Carolyn and Wodarski, John (eds). The Haworth Press, 2006. Find it on the shelves at: CBG-HIL.                   
  
 Mental health promotion for people with learning disabilities
 Hardy, Steve et al. OLM-Pavilion, 2009. Find it on the shelves at: DE-HAR. 
                           
Outcome and innovation in psychological treatment of schizophrenia
Wykes, Til et al. Wiley, 1998. Find it on the shelves at: CBEB-WYK.

Valuing people now: the delivery plan
Department of health, 2008.  Find it on the shelves at: AB-DOH. This is also available on-line by clicking on the link.

More titles in ASME Medical Education Series

We have more titles available from the from ASME’s ‘Understanding Medical Education’ series.

They include:

Qualitative research in medical education

Problem-based learning

Learning medicine from the humanities

How to design a useful test: the principles of assessment

They can be found on the shelves at 222 or on the new resources stand. We have many other titles too, so let us know if there’s a specific one you are interested in. 

As with nearly all our resources, we can send these booklets out in the internal post so please contact the Library if you would like any of the titles. Email mentalhealthlibrary@leedspft.nhs.uk or call 0113 3055652

New resources in the Mental Health library

Here are the latest additions to the Mental Health Library. If you would like to borrow any of the new items, you can email us on mentalhealthlibrary@leedspft.nhs.uk or telephone 0113 30 55652 and we can send them out to your workplace, or you can visit us at the Mount Annexe, 1st floor. (Click for map)

Sims’ symptoms in the mind: an introduction to descriptive psychopathology
Oyebode, Femi. Elsevier Ltd, 2008. Find it on the shelves at: 125.2 (OYE)

Suicidal Behavior
McKeon, Richard. Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, 2009. Find it on the shelves at: 137 (MCK)

Supervision in clinical practice
Scaife, Joyce. Routledge, 2009. Find it on the shelves at: 226 (SCA)

Systems thinking in the public sector
Seddon, John. Triarchy Press, 2008. Find it on the shelves at 216 (SED)