Table 1 UK policy documents included in analysis, ordered by publication date and category
Document category | Document year and title |
|---|---|
Primary legislation, white papers, and consultation reports | 2012 Health and Social Care Act [40] 2019 Transforming the response to domestic abuse: consultation response and draft bill [41] 2021 Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all [42] |
Government and parliamentary documents | 2016 Ending violence against women and girls. Strategy 2016–2020 [43] 2018 Public Health Priorities for Scotland [44] 2018 HM Government: Serious Violence Strategy [45] 2019 Ending violence against women and girls 2016–2020: refresh strategy [46] 2021 COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing Recovery Action Plan [47] |
NHS/Public Health England strategy documents | 2014 Five year forward view [48] 2018 Strategic direction for sexual assault and abuse services – Lifelong care for victims and survivors: 2018–2021 [49] |
NHS/Public Health England planning documents | 2019 NHS Long Term Plan [50] 2019 NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20–2023/24 [51] |
Patient/service-users and carer perspectives | 2019 Engaging with complexity: providing effective trauma-informed care for women [52] |
Evaluations and evidence reported to Department of Health or local government | 2018 The Women’s Mental Health Taskforce. Final report [17] 2019 A sense of safety: trauma-informed approaches for women [53] 2019 Developing trauma informed practice in Northern Ireland: key messages [54] Successes and struggles keeping trauma in mind: development of a trauma informed adult mental health service [55] Ten evidence-based reasons for embedding values-based ‘Enabling Environments’ in health care [56] |
Guidance on ‘how to do’ trauma-informed care’ | 2017 Transforming psychological trauma: a knowledge and skills framework for the Scottish Workforce [25] 2018 Trauma-informed approaches. Trauma-informed care: implications for practice [57] 2018 Trauma-informed care in response to adverse childhood experiences [58] 2018 Adverse Childhood Experiences, Resilience and Trauma-informed care: a Public Health Approach to Understanding and Responding to Adversity. The Annual Report of the Director of Public Health [59] 2019 Developing real world system capability in trauma informed care: learning from good practice [60] 2021 A good practice guide to support implementation of trauma-informed care in the perinatal period [28] |