General practitioners' experiences of providing lifestyle advice to patients with depression: A qualitative focus group study.

Objective: Depression is an increasingly common mental health disorder in the UK, managed predominantly in the community by GPs. Emerging evidence suggests lifestyle medicine is a key component in the management of depression. We aimed to explore GPs' experiences, attitudes, and challenges to providing lifestyle advice to patients with depression.

"There's very little that you can do other than refer them to the doctor if you think they've got postnatal depression": Scoping the potential for perinatal mental health care by community pharmacists.

Background: Twenty percent of women in the UK develop perinatal mental health (PMH) problems, which have widespread effects on maternal and child health. Community pharmacists are ideally placed to identify PMH problems and refer to other trained healthcare professionals.

Objective: This study explored community pharmacists' attitudes, current counselling practices, and barriers to providing mental health advice to perinatal women.

The Smarter Sleep educational interventions: an initiative to reduce hypnotic prescribing in in-patient psychiatric care.

Aims And Method: In-patients on mental health wards are commonly prescribed hypnotics for the long-term management of disturbed sleep. Specific sleep disorders remain underdiagnosed and effective behavioural interventions are underused. We developed a suite of three educational interventions (a video, poster and handbook) about sleep, sleep disorders, the safe prescribing of hypnotics and use of psychological strategies (sleep hygiene and cognitive-behavioural therapy for insomnia, CBTi) using co-design and multiprofessional stakeholder involvement.