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Enhancing resilience and social support for kinship foster care

Susannah Bowyer summarises and critiques a Spanish study on training and support for resilience in kinship foster care, drawing out lessons for UK practice. The post Enhancing resilience and social...

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Peer-led self-management for mental health: impressive programme, not so sure...

Lucy Simons and Chris Sampson appraise a recent evaluation of peer-led self-management training for people with severe mental illness. The post Peer-led self-management for mental health: impressive...

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#WeCATS Critical Appraisal Twitter Session

Social media legend Teresa Chinn announces the launch of #WeCATS, a new WeNurses tweet chat being run in partnership with Sally Crowe from CASP, Sarah Chapman from the UK Cochrane Centre and your very...

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Testing stress training for black and minority ethnic carers of people with...

Mary Larkin finds out if a US carer support programme is effective for black and minority ethnic carers of people living with Alzhemier's disease. The post Testing stress training for black and...

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“No ‘one size fits all’ model for delivering primary care” says RAND Europe

Summary of a report, produced by RAND Europe, exploring different models for delivering primary care, including collaboration, and how to manage change. The post “No ‘one size fits all’ model for...

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To deliver quality primary care, GPs should analyse their clinical case-mix,...

This post looks at the Health Education England report, The future of primary care, which is about recruitment and training in primary care. The post To deliver quality primary care, GPs should analyse...

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Commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs: do they work?

John Baker summarises a review of commonly prescribed medication that covers seven psychiatric drugs, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, amphetamines, methylphenidate and...

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Mental health training programmes for non-mental health professionals

Ian Cummins on a systematic review of mental health training programmes for non-mental health trained professionals coming into contact with people with mental ill health. The post Mental health...

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Digital inclusion: mental health technologies for people with learning...

Leen Vereenooghe summarises a recent review paper that presents the state of the evidence and future directions for digital mental health and people with intellectual disabilities. The post Digital...

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EQUIPment testing: evaluating a co-delivered care planning training programme

Sarah Carr treats us to a bumper blog of EQUIP studies. Think: care planning, coproduction, service user involvement and training. She doesn't blog for us very often these days, but when she does it's...

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