People, Place and Policy: new online journal

People, Place and Policy is the new freely available online journal of the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR). It “provides a forum for debate about the situations and experiences of people and places struggling to negotiate a satisfactory accommodation with the various opportunities, constraints and risks within contemporary society”.

New Internet tutorial for Leisure, Sport and Recreation

Intute has released a new internet searching tutorial for Leisure, Sport and Recreation. Suggested web sites and useful tips for searching the Internet.

NHS reforms and the working lives of midwives and physiotherapists. Final report 2006

This 22-page report has been published jointly by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM). Based on a survey of 2,500 UK members of these organisations, the report identifies that a failure to ensure involvement in strategic planning, a lack of communication and supportive environment and staff shortages have contributed to the alienation of midwives and physiotherapists from the government’s health care reform programme.

Take a look here.

Introduction to the mental health of older people

These e-learning resources are freely available to all users and, through audio, video and interactive uses of technology, aim to raise awareness of key issues, research, messages, policies and approaches relating to the mental health of older people and, in so doing, positively impact on practice.

Parenting: research evidence

 

Seven literature reviews of research on parenting have been published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

These seven reports review existing research on Parenting and outcomes for children Parenting and resilience, Fathers and fatherhood, Parenting and ethnicity, Children’s views of parenting, Parenting and poverty and Barriers to inclusion.

What do criminal barristers think of psychologists and psychiatrists?

Most criminal barristers think psychiatrists make more useful expert witnesses than clinical psychologists, with the latter considered to be most appropriate when it comes to determining confession reliability. That’s according to a survey of 62 British barristers by Tim Valentine and colleagues. Interesting article abstract about perceptions of the differences between psychiatrists and clinical psychologists.

Mental Health Act 2007: early implementation of provisions

 

The Government is commencing several provisions of the Mental Health Act 2007 on 1 October 2007, 1 December 2007 (civil partners as nearest relative) and 1 January 2008 (parental consent and admitting 16- and 17-year-olds to hospital for mental health treatment). 

Read all about it here.

Clean, safe care : reducing MRSA

 

Clean, safe care is an NHS website with information, news and resources relating to reducing the incidence of hospital acquired infection (HCAI). The website brings together policy and guidance from the Department of Health’s HCAI programme, reports and presentations from conferences, cases studies, guidelines and toolkits. Take a look at the site here.

Current Archaeology

We now have login details to the Current Archaeology website via a user name and password which will for the next few months give us “unlimited access to all the back issues of Current Archaeology up until the most recent few issues”. It runs from Issue 1 1967.

For  the url, log in and password details please contact the Enquiries Desk

Type 2 Diabetes: a couple of resources

A couple of resources on Type 2 diabetes: the first is a literature review on screening, the second a supplement on prevention.

Screening for Type 2 diabetes

This literature review was commissioned to update a previous review and support an upcoming review of policy for screening for Type 2 diabetes to be undertaken by the UK National Screening Committee (NSC). A key objective was to reconsider the aims of screening for undiagnosed diabetes and whether screening should be for other abnormalities of glucose metabolism such as impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), or the ‘metabolic syndrome’.

Prevention and action on Type 2 diabetes

Nearly two-thirds of Type 2 diabetes cases could be prevented according to research, making prevention of the condition a key priority for the NHS. The National Diabetes Support Team (NDST) has put together a supplement to ‘Beyond Boundaries: A Guide to Diabetes Networks’ focussing on prevention and how diabetes networks can take action to reduce the prevalence of this disabling and damaging condition. Includes sections on healthy eating, physical exercise and ‘at risk’ populations. Click here!