Things in the library 25th October

Things published:

Annual report from the Chief Medical Officer:

"Prevention pays - our children deserve better" read the full report here 

Things that are useful:

Clinical Evidence systematically finds, assesses and summarizes the most relevant evidence for a wide range of common clinical questions and has a separate child health section. Review findings are displayed in a quick and easy to use format.  Sign in with your NHS Open Athens account 

Things other people have been reading:

The 5 most read articles in Paediatrics and Child Health over the last 3 months - available full text via your NHS Open Athens account

1. Otitis media with effusion in children: current management  January 2012 (Vol. 22 | No. 1 | Pages 9-12) Peter J. Robb, Ian Williamson

2. Preseptal and orbital cellulitis in children: a review  January 2012 (Vol. 22 | No. 1 | Pages 1-8) Patrick Watts

3. Obesity genes: implication in childhood obesity January 2012 (Vol. 22 | No. 1 | Pages 31-36) Yvonne Böttcher, Antje Körner, Peter Kovacs, Wieland Kiess

4. Diagnosing autism January 2013 (Vol. 23 | No. 1 | Pages 5-10) Kirsty Yates, Ann Le Couteur

5. The management of hearing loss in children June 2012 (Vol. 22 | No. 1 | Pages 13-18) Marianne D. Elloy, Andrew H. Marshall

Things to participate in (or involve those you know):
The Department of Education and Department of Health are consulting young people on a new code of practice and on replacing special educational needs (SEN) statements with 0 to 25 education, health and care plans. They are now seeking the views of young people with special educational needs and have issued two draft codes of practice. The consultation period closes on the 20 December 2013.
Code of practice consultation document under 16s
Code of practice consultation document 16-25

Things not to forget:

End of British Summer Time on Sunday so turn your clocks back one hour.

Remembrance poppies for sale in the library from Monday next week

Things you might want to do - (bit early for Christmas sorry)

Buy Pete McKee Christmas Cards  (or  pre-order a stocking sized Theo) to support the Children's Hospital Charity shop online here

Christmas Jumper Day Friday 13th Dec wear or knit a jumper to support Save the Children- find out more here You don't have to knit a large jumper  - Gill knitted Christmas egg cosies for her family last year

Things to eat:

Just to prove we do eat more than just cakes Gill can recommend this seasonal recipe "Spiced root soup with crisp spiced onions"

Things in the library 18th Oct

Things we did:
Library Away Day
Sorry if you came to see us on Tuesday 15th ...we weren't here... we were having our Away Day to consider 'where next' for the library service. A useful ice breaker exercise we did was to summarise what our purpose is in the form of a tweet i.e limited to 140 characters. That certainly got the brain cells working. We didn't go very far just across the road to the Arts Tower but it was good to get away out of our usual environment. 


Journal Club this week
The presenter this week was Pawan Kumar Sharma and he  presented the paper "Urine proteomics for discovery of improved diagnostic markers of Kawasaki disease".     Read the article here  and find out more about Journal Club here

Next Journal Club meeting 7th Nov - Thurs 8-9 am where the article to be discussed will be "Electrocardiogram Screening for Disorders That Cause Sudden Cardiac Death in Asymptomatic Children: A Meta-analysis" Pediatrics. 2012 April; 129(4): e999–e1010  Read it here

Things we spotted:
Insight into the social interactions of babies helps reveal how infections spread PLOS ONE article
GMC The state of medical education and practice in the UK report: 2013 Read it here

Things you might want to do:

Helping you to support young carers - School Nurses’ and Community Children’s Nurses’ Master Class - Birmingham

In conjunction with the Department of Health, the RCN are running four master classes to provide school nurses and community children’s nurses with an update on the national policy and to discuss what it means to you.   Details

Things we baked:
No not for Gill's birthday (which was this week) but for Journal Club  Spinach and parmesan muffins 
Recipe can be found here