NHS Evidence later life – monthly newsletter published
This month’s edition includes a round up of new guidance, systematic reviews, news and resources of interest. It focuses on NICE reviewing technology appraisal guidance 111 on using donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine and memantine in the NHS in England and Wales.
Delivering Race Equality in Mental Healthcare – new report published
A new report has been published detailing the findings and outcomes of the community engagement programme conducted by the National Institute for Mental Health England between 2005 and 2008. The project allowed community researchers, community organisations, black and minority ethnic (BME) mental health service users, carers and other community members to contribute to the development of mental health policy and provision of services.
NHS Evidence – Ethnicity and Health – Annual Evidence Update – Healthcare for survivors of torture
Dr Nimisha Patel and Dr Amanda Williams from the Medical Foundation for the care of victims of torture are the authors of this 2010 article on healthcare for survivors of torture. The article includes links and references to other online resources.
Essence of Care 2010
Essence of Care has been refreshed by the Department of Health and now contains 12 benchmarks, following a consultation exercise late in 2009. It aims to support localised quality improvement, by providing a set of established and refreshed benchmarks supporting front line care across care settings at a local level.
The benchmarking process outlined in Essence of Care 2010 helps practitioners to take a structured approach to sharing and comparing practice, enabling them to identify the best and to develop action plans to remedy poor practice.
This edition supersedes the previous versions originating since 2001.
Dementia brain tour
The dementia brain tour is a free educational video resource from the Alzheimer’s Society that includes chapters on the brain and how brain cells function, Alzheimer’s disease, Posterior Cortical Atrophy, vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, fronto-temporal dementia and other rarer causes of dementia.
Spending Review 2010 published today
The Chancellor, George Osborne, has presented the Government’s Spending Review, which fixes spending budgets for each Government department up to 2014-15.
Details from the HM Treasury site, including the full document are available here.
NHS Evidence – Health Management are pulling together recently published information and resources here in Focus On the Spending Review.
The BBC is covering news, comments and analysis relating to the Spending Review here.
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
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:
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.
