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If you use the Healthcare Databases Advanced Search (HDAS) you need to be aware that HDAS has built up a large amount of saved data, which has a potential impact on performance. Please review your saved search strategies and saved results and delete any that you don’t need any more, or export those that you do. You can export saved results in a variety of formats to save outside HDAS eg Word, Excel, RIS.
From 1st August, HDAS will automatically delete any saved results that are more than 2 years old but your saved search strategies will still be available.
If you want to know how to use HDAS for literature searching we offer a one hour individual or small group training sessions - book here!
Things about young carers...
New research from Barnardo's says BAME young carers in England are missing out on their childhoods because of the additional responsibilities and stresses they have to deal with. Barnardo’s research, based on interviews with BAME young carers and practitioners found:- Many young south Asian carers were far too often being relied upon as interpreters, relaying technical and deeply personal medical information between patients and doctors, which can lead to misdiagnosis and increased anxiety within families.
- The concept of a young carer is unfamiliar to many BAME communities as helping your family and extended family is often expected.
- Often BAME families do not want agencies involved as there is a deep mistrust of social services, or authorities and they are fearful of their families being split up.
- There is stigma within many BAME communities in acknowledging mental health and disability issues and in seeking support.
Barnardo’s key recommendations in the Caring Alone report include:
- All patients who don’t speak English should have access to a translator. Children and young people should never be expected to translate for a relative.
- The NHS should work with communities to tackle stigma around within BAME communities to reduce the stigma of mental illness, special needs and disability and improve access to services.
- NHS services should employ community outreach workers to improve understanding and relationships in BAME communities
The World Health Organisation has published guidelines on physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep for children under 5 years of age. The full report is available here
Things digital...
Child health information will be available to health professionals and parents at the point of care, thanks to a new live national service which has been launched by the NHS. Parents and health professionals can securely receive information digitally and use it to inform decisions on care and treatment, using the National Events Management Service, which securely publishes information on key health interventions for children.
The service shows which preventative interventions a child has received; improving the speed of diagnosis and treatment by giving health visitors and parents access to the same information sources at the same time.
The service has initially launched in North East London in partnership with North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT) and their health visiting and child health services. The IT system suppliers supporting the trust – System C2 (CarePlus), Servelec3 (Rio) and Sitekit4 (eRedbook) – have all collaborated with NHS Digital to connect their systems to the new service.
It implements a near real-time message exchange sending birth notifications, change of address and change of GP practice details. Data is also forwarded to a digital red book offered to mothers as an alternative to the current paper red book.
Commenting on the first week's live running, David Pike, Programme Manager at NELFT, said “The results so far have been very encouraging. Within the first couple of days we achieved a 20% increase in the timeliness of new birth notifications from out of area maternity units, enabling our health visitors to see new families sooner."
“We also received 2000 address changes on the first day, which means we're picking up children new to NELFT services much quicker; ensuring those children moving out of area are rapidly notified to their new service provider. Based on these early improvements, we expect to be targeting health resources much more accurately in the coming year.”
Things about sexual abuse...
The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse has published a report and video about medical examinations for child sexual abuse. Findings from the report, which is based on a review of available literature, includes: most children are not referred for medical examination, some professionals have concerns about harm through examination and most children reflect on the medical examination as a positive experience. A video, which has been produced alongside the research, aims to help professionals and practitioners involved in advising, referring and supporting children and families to make decisions and explain the processes involved in medical examinations.
Things to read ...
Our next reading group book is Mythos by Stephen Fry ..so an ideal choice if you want to brush up your knowledge of Greek myths and legends. The discussion meeting (with drinks and nibbles) will be in the Illingworth Library on Wednesday June 5th at 17:15 - you will be made very welcome.
Things to eat...
I'm just back from Avignon and rediscovered the delights of nougat whist there. This dessert of Iced nougat & raspberry terrine looks lovely for a special occasion...in small quantities!
Reminder we will be closed on Bank Holiday Monday
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