Things in the library 6 June

Things happening
The library will be open between 10:30 and 15:30 tomorrow Sat 7 June as part of the recruitment day. You are welcome to come in to use the library as normal during this time if you wish.

Infobites on Tuesday 10 June at 13:00 - how to access full text articles - 20 min session with cakes - all welcome. If you don't understand how to get full text articles and why it sometimes seems so difficult this is the session for you.

Advanced warning that the library will be closed on Tuesday 17 June all day for the library staff annual away day where we will be planning services for the next year. Apologies for any inconvenience - books may be returned in the book-drop box outside the library.

Things to read
Health Education England have published their strategic framework for 2014-2029 Framework 15 covering 'Global drivers of change', 'People and patients of the future', Future workforce' and 'Strategic response'. This is all about improving the quality of care for patients by ensuring there are enough staff with the right skills and attitudes. Report here



Things to use
A Patient and Family-Centred Care toolkit has been produced by the King's Fund. The toolkit is a simple, step-by-step method for understanding what a care experience is like, what needs to change, and which small improvements can make a big difference to patients, families and staff alike. Across the country teams have implemented the approach to improve services, ranging from paediatric accident and emergency to the care of frail older people, with measurable results. Two of the case studies follow the patient experience of children - one with asthma and one with acute abdominal pain. Full details here

Things smelly
Ever wondered why old and new books smell as they do... answer here ...feel free to come and stick your nose into our books anytime! (thanks to Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Libraries for Tweeting this link)

Things to eat

Keeping on the smelly theme...I love this blue cheese pasta

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

Away day ...

On a day when there was hardly a cloud to be seen across the UK your intrepid library staff left their sunny (and often too hot) library for a long planned Away Day.

Where were we going...perhaps the park, the seaside or an airy room set in a delightful garden?  Sadly no ...our destination was a windowless room in the depths of the medical school.

So why an Away Day?

Like many groups and organisations we find it useful to escape the work environment once every couple of years to review our services, plan for the future and have time to discuss decisions with all 3 of us there at the same time. We were pleased to have additional input from both the Knowledge Services Manager for NHS Yorkshire & the Humber and the Director of Human Resources & Organisational Development at Sheffield Children’s NHS FT

We looked at the actions we had planned 2 years ago and it was good to see most had been achieved – we now have e-prompt  (our current awareness service) up and running, our website has been revamped and integrated into that of the Trust and we have extended our clinical support role.

We spent some time studying the results of our recent Library Survey where we asked you what you thought of our services and developments you would like to see in the future. Full results will be in a later blog but it is great to see that from our 254 respondents 92% told us they were happy with the library.

Thank you for taking the trouble to tell us your views – the winner of the book token will be announced shortly.