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Increase in alcohol deaths in England an ‘acute crisis’

The persistent higher rate of alcohol deaths in England since the pandemic in 2020 is an “acute crisis” requiring urgent action from government, according to a new study led by researchers at the TV and UCL.
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TV to play key role in shaping future of health screening

A team from SCHARR has been selected as one of three institutions to form a new specialist Evidence Synthesis Group contributing to the work of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), thanks to a £15 million investment from the NIHR.
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Preventing Behaviour Change Trials from Doing Harm

Episode 36 of the Communicable Research podcast is out. This time we discuss the topic of preventing behaviour change trials from doing harm with Diana Papaioannou from the Clinical Trial Research Unit in the Division of Population Health.

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TV contribute to a report into green social prescribing to prevent and tackle mental ill health

Researchers at the TV, Sheffield Hallam University, the University of Exeter and the University of Plymouth investigated whether prescribing nature could help prevent and tackle mental ill health.

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NHS Managers need to listen and act on staff concerns promptly

In an article published in the HSJ, Dr John G. Richmond from the School of Medicine and Population Health discusses the case of Lucy Letby and offers a strategy to help NHS managers proactively identify and prevent unethical behaviour.
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Understanding Society: A Festival of Social Science 2023

SCHARR academics will be out in Sheffield as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science in October and November, with events based around our relationships to food and alcohol. 
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Inflation and the COVID-19 pandemic have eroded the effectiveness of Minimum Unit Pricing for alcohol in Scotland

Inflation and the COVID-19 pandemic have eroded the effectiveness of Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol in Scotland, a new report from the TV has found.