Implementing for Sustainability: Promoting Use of a Measurement Feedback System for Innovation and Quality Improvement.

Measurement feedback systems (MFSs) are increasingly recognized as evidence-based treatments for improving mental health outcomes, in addition to being a useful administrative tool for service planning and reporting. Promising research findings have driven practice administrators and policymakers to emphasize the incorporation of outcomes monitoring into electronic health systems. To promote MFS integrity and protect against potentially negative outcomes, it is vital that adoption and implementation be guided by scientifically rigorous yet practical principles.

Availability of iodised table salt in the UK - is it likely to influence population iodine intake?

Objective: Iodine deficiency has recently been found in UK young and pregnant women, which is of concern given the importance of adequate iodine intake in pregnancy for fetal brain development. The WHO recommends that iodine deficiency in a population should be corrected through salt iodisation but there is a lack of UK data on iodised-salt availability, a situation that the present study aimed to address.

Design: Availability of iodised salt for household use was determined by a shelf survey in five supermarket chains in each of sixteen UK areas (in Southern England, Wales and Northern Ireland) encompassing a total of seventy-seven supermarkets.

Commentary: improving children's services: building partnerships between providers and researchers.

The authors offer a commentary on Gartland and colleagues' critical review of usual care (UC) provided to children in outpatient, mental health services. The authors, welcome opportunitunites to evaluate UC as opportunities to improve UC. However, they suggest that these efforts have to take part in a context that values and understands the needs of the providers, and voice of consumers.

Iodine concentration of organic and conventional milk: implications for iodine intake.

Iodine is required for adequate thyroid hormone production, which is essential for brain development, particularly in the first trimester of pregnancy. Milk is the principal source of iodine in UK diets, and while small studies in Europe have shown organic milk to have a lower iodine concentration than conventional milk, no such study has been conducted in Britain. In view of the increasing popularity of organic milk in the UK, we aimed to compare the iodine concentration of retail organic and conventional milk and to evaluate regional influences in iodine levels.