Things in the library 11 Jan...

Things happening around SCH...

Our previous Randomised Coffee Trial in November was a great success with most people, so we have decided to keep running RCTs probably 3 or 4 times a year. The sign up form for the next one is now available and we will be encouraging you to meet with your new partner during February. Please open the form link in Chrome or Firefox  to sign up. This time, if you wish, you can select to stay on our 'matching' list for all future RCTs (until you tell us to remove you) so that you don't have to sign up each time.

Things too sugary...

Children have already exceeded the maximum recommended sugar intake for an 18 year old by the time they reach their tenth birthday, according to Public Health England (PHE). This is based on their total sugar consumption from the age of 2. This figure comes as a new Change4Life campaign launches, supporting families to cut back on sugar and to help tackle growing rates of childhood obesity.

While children’s sugar intakes have declined slightly in recent years, they are still consuming around 8 excess sugar cubes each day, equivalent to around 2,800 excess sugar cubes per year. To help parents manage this, Change4Life is encouraging them to ‘Make a swap when you next shop’. Making simple everyday swaps can reduce children’s sugar intake from some products (yoghurts, drinks and breakfast cereals) by half – while giving them healthier versions of the foods and drinks they enjoy.

Things to attend...

Journal Club next week 15th January 13:00 to 14:00 in the Education and Skills Centre, F Floor, Stephenson Wing.discussing "Estimating risk of pneumonia in a prospective emergency department cohort" muffins will be provided and Journal Club is open to all health professionals. It is a fun, informal way of learning to criticise papers and gather evidence to change practice.

At each meeting a speaker presents a critical appraisal of a research paper, using a recognised appraisal tool such as CASP Group members then have an informal discussion to determine whether or not current practice should be altered in light of the presenter's findings

Things about safeguarding...

The National Children’s Bureau has published "Safeguarding early adopters: developing the learning on multi-agency safeguarding arrangements interim report – December 2018".  This report shares the emerging learning from the Safeguarding Early Adopters (EA) programme including activity from the programme so far; approaches the EA projects are testing and implementing; early principles for implementation; and learning examples from EA projects.

Things about single parent families...

The experience of single parenthood is more common than typically reported – and children’s wellbeing is not negatively affected by living in single parent households – according to a study led by the University of Sheffield. A report by Sumi Rabindrakumar, in her role as policy officer at the leading national charity working with single parent families, Gingerbread, and University of Sheffield researchers, found that public policy and research needs a more nuanced understanding of single parent family life – reflecting how households change over time.The study, carried out as part of the University’s Crook Public Service Fellowship scheme, explored the experiences of more than 27,800 households with children over a six-year period.

It found that, while surveys typically suggest that one in four families with children are headed by a single parent at any one point in time, data suggests that one in three families with children will have been a single parent family at some point over a six-year period.

Things about food insecurity...

Nearly one in five UK children under 15 lives in a home where the parents cannot afford to put food on the table, the environmental audit committee has said. The committee’s report, Hunger, Malnutrition and Food Insecurity in the UK,1 says that about 19% of under 15s live with an adult who is moderately or severely food insecure, defined as having “limited access to food . . . due to lack of money or other resources.” Of these, half are severely food insecure. The Food Foundation told the committee that this makes the UK “one of, if not the, worst performing nations in the European Union.”

Things that are useful...

Pinched from another health library's blog this week (University Hospitals of Leicester) is a useful article about highlighting multiple words at once in Chrome.

Things to buy...

We have some old editions of books available for sale - first come first served....please check out the trolley in the library or click this link to view the list . If you are registered with the library we can save items for you and we will add the the cost of them to your library account...please note this is a commitment to buy...we will not reserve items for you to look at and then decide you don't want to buy.

Things to read...

Our next reading group meeting will be on Wed Feb 6th at 17:15 with drinks and nibbles provided. The book to read if you have time is 'The Choice' by Edith Eger. Dr Eger shares her experience of the Holocaust and the remarkable stories of those she has helped ever since. Today, she is an internationally acclaimed psychologist whose patients include survivors of abuse and soldiers suffering from PTSD.

 'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed.'"- Desmond Tutu , Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Things to eat...

This Honeyed winter salad is easy to make and served warm.