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What's happening in mental health care during COVID-19? A thread to give an overview of the pre-print reporting on our recent survey of 2000+ UK mental health staff. Pre-prints have not yet been accepted by peer-reviewed journals. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Now out in pre-print, first results from our Mental Health Policy Research Unit national survey of staff on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health care medrxiv.org/content/10.110… See the Supplementary report for more detail medrxiv.org/content/medrxi…

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Very pleased to see this out. Latest paper from the ⁦Mental Health Policy Research Unit⁩ team plus. Impact on mental health care and on mental health service users of the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods survey of UK mental health care staff | SpringerLink link.springer.com/article/10.100…

S P Sashidharan Helen Killaspy🌈 @sheridan_rains Sonia Johnson Alan Simpson 💙 Mental Health Policy Research Unit Impact on mental health care and on mental health service users of the COVID-19 pandemic link.springer.com/article/10.100… A mixed methods Mental Health Policy Research Unit survey of UK mental health care staff

Just published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology - results of our mixed methods survey of the reports of over 2,000 staff on the early impact on mental health care of COVID-19. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Thank you Dr Charlotte Huggett for a really clear and succinct summary of our national survey of mental health staff reports on COVID-19 impact on The Mental Elf today! Here's the original paper link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New from Christian Dalton-Locke PhD: The Effectiveness of Mental Health Rehabilitation Services: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis Frontiers - Psychiatry Peter McPherson Helen Killaspy🌈 UCL Psychiatry UCL Primary Care & Population Health frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Feeling chuffed. First publication from my PhD out today Frontiers - Psychiatry - a sys review on the effectiveness of mental health rehabilitation services. Thanks for all the support Helen Killaspy🌈 Louise Marston Peter McPherson Sarah Ledden frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Systematic Review & Narrative Synthesis of evidence - showing access to inpatient rehabilitation services was associated with a reduction in acute inpatient service use post discharge ⬆️Benefits 4 those who are homeless Christian Dalton-Locke Frontiers frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Inpatient and community rehabilitation services may reduce the need for inpatient service use over the long term but more research is required, finds Christian Dalton-Locke Peter McPherson Helen Killaspy🌈 buff.ly/3qp0kJ5

I wrote a blog on our Mental Health Policy Research Unit event discussing research on how the pandemic has affected mental health care and services, and the priorities for future research. Have a read and let us know what you think should be researched! ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/cov…

A thread on our recently published open access paper in あか: How has Covid‐19 affected mental health nurses and the delivery of mental health nursing care in the UK? Results of a mixed methods study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

🚨Hot off the press! New paper out now BMJ_Open: 'Text mining occupations from the mental health electronic health record: a natural language processing approach using records from the Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) platform (a thread) bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/3/e…

Now open access Archives of Women’s Mental Health 'Challenges and opportunities of the COVID-19 pandemic for perinatal mental health care'. Really enjoyed working with HSPRD IOPPN @SWMH_IoPPN UCL Psychiatry Dr Sian Oram Alan Simpson 💙 Sonia Johnson Christian Dalton-Locke link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Our new paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gp… explores staff perspectives on key challenges and beneficial innovations for Older Adults Mental Health Services in the COVID-19 pandemic Jonathan Huntley Gill Livingston

New Mental Health Policy Research Unit pre-print (not yet peer reviewed) on crisis care systems in England: new models (e.g. crisis cafes) proliferating, but we still need evidence whether they are helpful, safe and satisfactory, and about how to optimise the whole system medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our Emerging models in crisis care paper is now published in BMC Health Services Research (Open Access). You can read it here rdcu.be/cAoLI A number of promising models widely implemented in England since 2016 but some lack evidence to support them Mental Health Policy Research Unit