Things in the library 31 July...

Things in the library...

We now have more computers available in the library though we look a little different. We have installed screens between computers so social distancing will be easier. we still require you to wear your masks in the library unless eating/drinking please.

Things about SIDS...

The Association of Child Protection Professionals (AoCPP) has released a podcast in which Dr Peter Sidebotham talks about his work on the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel and discusses their latest research on safeguarding children at risk from sudden unexpected infant death.

Things about taste...

A Danish study on the preference of eating vegetables in adolecence was published this week in Acta Paediatrica. They concluded that  adolescents preferred unhealthy food items, but they also reported more frequent consumption of healthy than unhealthy food items. A higher threshold for the bitter taste, that is, being less sensitive to bitter taste, was associated with higher liking and familiarity of vegetables.

Things to attend... 

Reading group this week where we are chatting about Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch. If you would like to join in our virtual meet at 18:15 till 19:15 on Wednesday 5th August please email the library for the joining link.

Things to for your holiday...

Whether you are going away or having a holiday in the garden don't forget we have a large selection of Leisure Reading you can borrow from literary classics to beach romances, with biographies and non-fiction choices too. We are currently open 8:30 to 17:00 but can also send items to you via the internal post if you are working on another site. You can also reserve items via our catalogue if you login with your library number and PIN (ask us if you have forgotten these) and we will have them ready waiting for you at the counter so you can quickly pop in and collect them. All books are quarantined before being re-shelved.

Things about obesity... 

There has been much talk this week about the goverment's intention to provide extra resources to combat obesity in UK. There are resources to help with this on the NHS Better Health website. 

Things about NHS people... 

The NHS People Plan for 2020/21 was published yesterday We are the NHS. In their introduction they say:

Action from the Interim People Plan was already being taken to increase the support and recognition for our people. Then the start of COVID-19 changed everything. Colleagues and loved ones were lost, and our people gave more of themselves than ever before. The public responded with appreciation and warmth. The clapping has now stopped, but our people must remain at the heart of our NHS, and the nation, as we rebuild. This document sets out what the people of the NHS can expect – from their leaders and from each other – for the rest of 2020 and into 2021

It contains specific commitments around  

• Looking after our people – with quality health and wellbeing support for everyone
• Belonging in the NHS – with a particular focus on tackling the discrimination that some staff face
• New ways of working and delivering care – making effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience
• Growing for the future – how we recruit and keep our people, and welcome back colleagues who want to return

You can read the full report here and the initial response from RCPCH  and the RCN .

Things to eat...

This fabulous green salad is perfect for the summer weather which seems to have returned today, chopped green salad with herby chilli dressing.

Things nothing to do with the library... 

I became a Granny a week ago today and got my first cuddle yesterday! After much scrubbing, wearing of clean clothes, washing of hands and mask wearing - me not baby Alice!

 

Things in the library 16 December...

Things closing for Christmas...
We will be closed for stocktaking all day on Thursday 22 December and then closed between Christmas & New Year re-opening on Tuesday 3rd January.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.

Things about journal club...

The next meeting of Journal Club will be on Thursday 22nd December 8:00 to 9:00 - Paper: Evaluation of a New Strategy for​ Clean-Catch Urine in Infants (Pediatrics Volume 1 38, number 3 , September 2016)​. If you then need to work off the homemade muffins you could come and join the library staff for a really exciting party game ...stocktaking!

Things on Evidence Based Medicine...
School of Health and Related Research are advertising this course at the moment booking Deadline: Wednesday, 4th January 2017: Real World Evaluation: Ten key principles for Evaluating Complex Health and Social Interventions (2 day course) Thursday, 2nd - Friday, 3rd March 2017

Things about fractures...
This week, as part of the Child Health Emergency Medicine Social Media Campaign, Cochrane Child Health are highlighting a 2014 Cochrane summary on interventions for treating femoral shaft fractures in children and adolescents. This review was selected for the TREKK Evidence Repository on fractures.

Things about decisions...

This week was the pre-launch of a joint campaign by Health Education England (HEE) and CILIP, the (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals),  highlighting the multiple beneficial outcomes when health service providers work closely with their library and knowledge services. Every day across the healthcare sector in England more than a million decisions are made that have a profound and lasting impact on people’s lives and which influence the quality of healthcare and the cost of services.
HEE and CILIP are campaigning for decisions in the healthcare sector to be fully evidence-based, calling on government and health service providers to employ and make use of the skills of librarians and knowledge specialists in meeting their obligations under The Health and Social Care Act 2012.
Let us know if help we have given you has had an impact on your work.

Things about improvement...
An evidence-based national framework to guide action on improvement skill-building, leadership development and talent management for people in NHS-funded roles has been published. Developing People- Improving Care. The vision is for team leaders at every level of the NHS to develop improvement and leadership capabilities among their staff and themselves. This will help protect and improve services for patients in the short term and for the next 20 years.

Things children are eating...
Health Survey for England 2015  was published this week this report examines the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children in England in 2015. It describes differences between groups of children, by age, sex and income. Parents’ and children’s perceptions of their weight are
compared with objective measures of body mass. Trends in childhood obesity over time are also discussed. There is comment and further information from Children's Food Trust

Things about infections...
Surgical site infections (SSI) surveillance: NHS hospitals in England was published this week. This annual report covers surgical site infection (SSI) data collected by NHS hospitals and independent sector NHS treatment centres.

Things to curl up with...
What better than a good book....don't forget we have a selection of leisure reading that anyone may borrow. Don't take a chance on Father Christmas not bringing you something to read this year ! Come up to the library and browse before we close for Christmas.

Things in the library 2 Dec

Things sparkly...
Us...we have put our Christmas decorations up early this year as once we get into preparing for our annual stock-take (library closed Thursday 22 Dec) we forget about them until the last minute and then don't seem to have them up for long. Come and see how we look and take out some festive leisure reading for your Christmas break (if you get one!).
Remember we are closed between Christmas & New Year so if you need any library services before we go let us know as soon as possible please. Books that are 3-week loans are now being stamped for January.



Things about doctors & managers...
The Nuffield Trust have published a narrative literature review on  this week. This  looks at empirical studies on perceptions of doctor–manager relationships at medical director and clinical director level in the UK published since a 2002 survey on this subject by the same authors. This literature review accompanies a research report on the findings from a 2015 survey of doctor– manager relationships at board and middle-management levels of NHS acute trusts, which seeks to understand their views on the current state of the relationship in the UK, the pressures it is coming under, how it has changed, and the outlook for the future.

Things glowing...
I heard an interesting item on 'Inside Science' on BBC Radio 4 yesterday about glowing dressings that detect infection. These have been developed at University of Bath and have now started clinical trials. The trial, at Southmead Hospital Bristol, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and Queen Victoria Hospital East Grinstead will see swabs and used dressings taken from hundreds of patients to be used in laboratory tests at the University of Bath. These double-blind tests will establish statistically how sensitive the bandages are to infections, and how specifically they react to infections they are designed to detect. The samples will also undergo tests by scientists at the University of Brighton seeking genomic data from infection-causing bacteria which will help improve the bandages’ performance further.

Things about disability services...
The report 'Disability Matters in Britain 2016: Enablers and challenges to inclusion for disabledchildren, young people and their families' has been published. The report pulls together the views and experiences of disabled children, young people and their parents or carers with the aim of raising awareness of good practice being adopted already, encouraging others to follow their lead and to help ensure that disabled people of all ages are valued as equals in our communities. The report reflects the views of 10 young people, 123 parent carers of disabled children and adults and 128 professionals and volunteers who responded to the Disability Matters ‘call for evidence’ earlier this year. Key findings include:

• Out of 72 examples from 123 parent carers, 30 parent carers experienced negative or unhelpful attitudes from others including other parents
• 22 parent carers said they found it difficult to access healthcare services 
• 20 parent carers reported trouble in finding opportunities for their child or young person so socialise with others
• 19 parent carers said their child hadn’t accessed any social activities such as cinema, bowling and youth clubs in the past 12 months due to poor attitudes, inexperienced staff or inaccessible buildings and services
• 40% of 96 respondents in the health sector felt their organisation was average or below average at communicating with disabled children and young people

Things Welsh and Christmassy...
A festive fairytale treat for all the family, A Child’s Christmas in Wales chronicles Dylan Thomas's own childhood memories and remains one of his most popular and loved works. In this wonderful adaptation for strings, step into December days ‘as white as Lapland’, where mischief is easily found, snowballs are hurled, and the curious grownups are shrewdly observed. University of Sheffield 18th December Evening & Matinee performances. Music: Ligeti Quartet Narration: Matthew Bulgo

Things achieved...

We haven't heard much from Sarah..she was last heard of heading for the Galapagos Islands. However here is her certificate of achievement.  At least she has stocktaking to look forward to on her return!

(c) http://laylita.com/

Not sure what she has been eating on her travels but as it's chilly here perhaps we can try one of these Ecuadorian soups...though not sure Tesco stocks cow's feet so might give that one a miss!

Things in the library 7th October...

Things about medicines for children...
NHS England has launched a 30 day public consultation on a clinical commissioning policy proposition for commissioning medicines in children.  There has already been extensive engagement on this national policy, it has been developed with the support and input of lead clinicians and patient and public representatives. This approach has helped ensure that the views of key stakeholders have informed and influenced the development of this policy to date. They now wish to test them further with wider groups of stakeholders.


Things about acute paediatric services...
The RCPCH is developing a set of service level measures designed to support acute paediatric services to monitor the effects of service change at a local level, and to facilitate quality improvement. They are doing this:

• To enable and support child health services to monitor the effect of service interventions at a local level.
• To provide a strong evidence base for the development and revision of service standards, such as the Facing the Future suite of standards.
• To identify and share examples of best practice, to aid the improvement of child health outcomes across the four UK nations

The future of the NHS?...

Good Governance (GGI) has published ‘The Future of the NHS’ that critically examines and provides some context to the direction in which the NHS is headed – consuming more and more public money to provide an increasingly worse service. With commentary from eminent colleagues including former secretaries of state for health, the publication Sir William Wells, presented his concerns at a seminar hosted by GGI in Westminster.

Things about TB...

Public health England have published their 2016 report (presenting data to end of 2015)

Mental health of Girls...

Girlguiding has published a report on the mental well-being of girls. Key findings include: girls of all ages face compounding pressures across all areas of their lives including sexist pressures; girls tend to dismiss or play down the issues they face and feel they should be able to cope alone. Recommendations include: all decision-makers need to listen to girls’ voices and engage them in the decisions that affect their lives; schools should take a zero-tolerance approach to sexual harassment; Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) should be a statutory entitlement for all young people.

Things about numbers...

"Numbers needed to mislead, meta-analysis and muddled thinking" a lecture  at ScHARR by Honorary Professor Stephen Senn FRSE on Wednesday 26 October 2016 at 17.15 - 18.00pm Lecture Theatre 4, The Diamond. 

Free - book tickets here  Professor Senn says "The ardent espousal by the evidence based medicine movement of numbers needed to treat (NNT) as a way of making difficult statistical concepts simple and concrete, has had the unintended consequence of sowing confusion. Many users, including many in the evidence based movement themselves, have interpreted these statistics as indicating what proportion of patients benefit from treatment. I shall explain this, with the example of a recent Cochrane Collaboration meta-analysis of paracetamol against placebo in trials of tension headache for which the plain language summary is plain wrong" 

Things about childhood obesity...

Public Health England outline their priority for reducing the proportion of overweight children leaving primary school in their Childhood Obesity Plan

Things about understanding sustainability and transformation plans ...

STPs are place-based, multi-year plans that are built around the needs of local areas and their populations, rather than the activities of individual organisations. In the NHS shared planning guidance 2015, NHS England asked every local health and care system in England to come together to create their own ambitious local STP to accelerate the aims of the Five Year Forward View, including addressing the funding gap, improving service quality and enhancing population health and wellbeing.

This briefing discusses the policy context, development to date, the timetable for further development and implementation, as well as the key messages from local political, commissioning and provider leaders on how the STP process could most helpfully develop in the coming months.

Something warm and comforting...

Seeing as the weather is feeling more nippy we thought this looks a nice weekend eat - Melting meatball macaroni....mmmm must be nearly lunchtime now!

Things in the library 17 June...

Things to visit...
The University of Sheffield's new Diamond building (opened last year) is having an open day in September as part of Heritage Open Day - first come first served and likely to be booked up quickly - so follow the link for booking and more information it is a wonderful building. Friday 9 September 2016 32 Leavygreave Rd, Sheffield, S3 7RD  http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/whatson/heritageopenday

Things about e-books... 
We now have access to 130 Oxford handbooks and textbooks as e-books on a wide range of topics  - you will find them by searching in our library catalogue then by clicking the "Read Me" button to gain access. You will be able to read them by logging in with your NHS OpenAthens account, it is also possible to download chapters.

Once logged in with NHS OpenAthens you can also search the Oxford Medicine Online site by specialty, career stage and book series - then if you select Unlocked and Free  in the filter section (see left) you can see what is available to you. Or you can browse the books available to you. If you need an OpenAthens account login join up here for free if you work for SCH.

Things to come to in the library...
Next week's journal club is on Thursday morning 23 June between 8:00 - 9:00 am. The paper to be presented and discussed is " Is screening for urine infection in well infants with prolonged jaundice required? Local review and meta-analysis of existing data" : Steadman S,Ahmed I, McGarry K, et al.Arch Dis Child ...with of course muffins.


Things about NHS leadership...

Marcus Powell joined The King’s Fund earlier this year as Director of Leadership and Organisational Development, having spent his whole career outside the NHS in the private sector. He has written a paper entitled 'Leadership in the NHS :Thoughts of a newcomer' which makes interesting reading.

Things about care models...
NHS confederation have just published "New care models and staff engagement: All aboard" This publication brings together the experiences of four vanguards which are placing staff at the centre of new care models. The vanguards featured recognise that those on the front line of care have the best ideas about how to improve it – but need to feel empowered to do so.

Things for father's day...

If you have little ones who want to make gifts then there are some nice ideas here  or for something to bake some good recipes here