Things in the library 1st November

Things we have done
Busy day in the library today as Sarah is conducting the ST1 STEPP training module on Evidence Based Medicine which she does a few times a year for the ST1s and ST3s. Sarah's new favourite book on the subject is " A beginner's guide to evidence-based practice in health and social care professions" by Helen Aveyard (ISBN 9780335246724)





Things we are going to do
Next week Sarah will be presenting a 20 min introduction to Basic Critical Appraisal on Tues 5th Nov at 13:00 in the library as the next in our InfoBites series - there will be cake too.


Things to buy
We still have some older editions of books available to buy - come up and browse.




Things in the news

image taken from Flickr taken by Robert Scoble

You may have seen reported research published in The Journal of Archives of Disease in Childhood this week which has highlighted a link between swaddling and hip dysplasia and late onset osteoarthritis. Read the full text with your NHS Athens login here





Things we are proud of
NHS libraries are judged against a variety of quality indicators and we are pleased to announce the we have just received a certificate recording our 94% compliance for 2013






Things we have found

Whilst supplying an article to another health library from a 1958 issue of the Lancet I came across some interesting snippets:

• an article bemoaning the increased habit of tablets being manufactured in colours and the concern that this would lead to an increase in accidental poisoning of children. The authors describe an experiment conducted with 'Smarties' - which actually seems to have only proved that children prefer red and orange Smarties (before the days of blue ones)
• discussions on the availability of Polio vaccine (imported from Canada in 1958) and the description of local UK outbreaks which struck a chord with the recent news from Syria.
• it had just become an offence under the clean air act to have black smoke emitting from any chimney in England and Wales
• there was also a humorous article relating problems with cycles and padlocks outside hospitals so some things never change!

I can recommend a browse through some old journals to while away some moments and you can even do this on-line (so less dust) as some publishers have digitised their entire journal holdings e.g. Archives of Disease in Childhood from 1926 onwards is available to you via your NHS Athens login (along with 2013 articles too of course). If you haven't got an Athens login set one up here .

Things about the NHS support organisations

NHS Employers has produced a new infographic showing the organisations that support the new NHS and what they do.This new infographic looks in detail at some of the other organisations in the new system that support the NHS, focussing on the NHS workforce, commissioning NHS services, patient care and support, supporting NHS organisations and public health. Click here to view

Things to eat

Sarah spotted these Bonfire Night recipes and thought the toffee apple squares sounded particularly yummy.

Things we already knew

Yorkshire is the third best region in the world to visit in 2014, according to travel guide Lonely Planet.