The coronavirus pandemic has inevitably led to more time spent online, which will have increased the risk of children and teenagers being exposed to cyberbullying and harmful content, among other issues. This article examines available data on the effects of the pandemic on children as a result of their online activity and looks at what schools and child health professionals may need to anticipate in terms of children's mental health following the pandemic. Read in full with MPFT ATHENS login.
Expert opinion article on vaccine hesitancy. Looks at questions such as whether vaccination should be compulsory for healthcare staff. Read in full with MPFT ATHENS login.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly affected people at the end of life who are being cared for in community settings, as well as their families and the nurses who provide care. This article explores the challenges generated by the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to community end of life care in the UK and reflects on the psychological and emotional consequences for nurses, patients and families. Free to read article.
Healthcare professionals need increased awareness and knowledge of the risk of perinatal mental illnesses among migrant women, and mental health should be routinely discussed in maternity and other healthcare services that serve women who are migrants.
The item concludes that, in children and adolescents with ERA and JPsA, secukinumab demonstrated significantly longer time to flare and number of flares versus placebo. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Young people who present to services should be routinely asked about online self-harm image viewing behaviour; clinicians or other frontline staff working with young people should be aware of the potential for harm. The eight areas of impact identified could guide routine clinical assessment. However, the findings clearly point to the complex, fluid and individual nature of interaction and response, and that there are potentially important gains not least in terms of social connection, support and recovery that should not be overlooked. In fact, boundaries between positive and negative impacts can be blurred. For whom are they harmful or beneficial? When? Why? All impacts and functions should be explored in practice with a young person to identify vulnerabilities and protective factors.
This study suggests that ADEs post hospital discharge can be linked with identifiable medication clusters. This information may help clinicians and researchers better understand patient populations that are more or less likely to benefit from peri-hospital discharge interventions aimed at reducing ADEs. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
First, the good news. Vacancies in adult social care fell slightly in 2022/23, from a record 164,000 in 2021/22 to 152,000 in 2022/23.* The number of filled posts increased and there was also a small fall in staff turnover. Together, the figures demonstrate a small but significant release of pressure on the social care sector. Providers, and people who draw on services, will be desperate for it to continue.
Digging into the numbers, however, it’s clear that the fall in vacancies was due to a large increase in the number of care workers coming to the UK from abroad, from 20,000 in 2021/22 to 70,000 in 2022/23. These new overseas workers, while welcome, are not by themselves the answer to the long-term recruitment crisis in social care.
Even across such a broad group there was good agreement about both the challenges facing adult social care and the type of social care system people wanted to see.
There were also many examples of technology being effectively used to improve quality and ensure better choice and control, as well as generating efficiencies. These examples gave a glimpse of the potential for technology to benefit those that draw on services, carers, staff and organisations.