Things in the library 4 Feb

Special things in the Library this week 
To celebrate National Libraries Day we are offering a competition and drop in sessions throughout the week event details

• Join the library – borrow books, request articles
• Register for an Open Athens Account – access resources via Athens
• Introduction to Literature Searching – taster session to help you improve your search results
• Introduction to Journal Club – see what is involved and sample the home baking 

Competition thing
Come to the library and  take a #libraryselfie or a #bookselfie
Follow us or Like our page or sign up to subscribe to this blog or share your photo on Twitter or Facebook  including #NLD15  and mentioning us for a chance to win a book token.
• Follow us -  @illingworthinfo
• Like our page - search for 'Illingworth Library' as a place
Anyone who has posted a selfie can come to the library for a free hot drink and a muffin or cakey bite. See our #libraryselfie pictures below - we promise not to eat all the cakes ourselves......

Things read 
Over Christmas I managed to find time to read 'The Help' by Kathryn Stockett published in 2009. Some of you may have seen the film but if you want to read the book we have a copy available for loan in the library.
The book is set in Mississippi in 1962 and is about the lives of the the black maids employed by the white families - trusted to raise the white children yet segregated  in so many ways and not trusted with the family silver. The intertwining of these two worlds: the home lives of the maids and those of the 'ladies who lunch' at a time of political change and racial tension is in turn horrific, hilarious and often moving. A friendship develops between a white college girl trying to find out what happened to the black maid who raised her and two of the maids who trust her and want to tell their stories.
The characters are brilliantly described and there are those on both sides that you feel empathy with and the courage they have to show crossing boundaries is clearly described. The food and weather of the southern states are a running theme throughout the book adding to the atmosphere and drawing you into this world. An extraordinary story which I couldn't put down it had me in turn laughing out loud and despairing of man's (and women's) lack of tolerance and understanding of others.

Things theatrical 
Do you know about the library theatre...no not us..the Central Sheffield Library. Hidden away on Tudor Square next to the Lyceum. They have just released the next season's programme




Things about medical education

The GMC are consulting about standards for medical education and training and would like to hear your views on their draft proposals. They are asking medical students, doctors in training, trainers, teachers, as well as the organisations that educate and train medical students and doctors, for their views on the proposed standards. Anyone who is interested in medical education and training can respond to the consultation. Take part here

Things in the library next week
Infobites on 'Resources via Athens' Tues 10th 13:00 come along for 20 mins
Journal Club an introductory session to find out more and sample the cakes Thurs 12th at 8:00

Kate hiding..or reading?

Sarah (the boss) getting a cuppa

Jac with the audiology books
..and the cakes

Me..Gill..hoping there
is a cake left for me

 

Things in the library 20th Jan

Things to lift the January gloom
We have an excellent selection of Leisure Reading in the library - many  of them chosen as Mood Boosting books. Search here for 'Leisure'. There was also an interesting article in the Guardian online yesterday with suggestions for books for teens to read to pick you up when you feel down.


Things about babies
Recent research at University of Sheffield shows

• Babies learn best when they are sleepy
• Daytime naps of 30 minutes or more help infants to retain and remember new behaviours
• Bedtime stories are invaluable for a child’s development 

Things about services

CCG learning network provides online support, resources and information for proposed clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). This includes the Model Specification for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services which can be read here 

Skills for health has launched the revised National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Children & Young People’s Health Services.

Things new from NICE

A new guideline published this month on Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: recognition, diagnosis and management in children and young people. resources relating to this guideline can be accessed here. One of our consultant paediatric gastroenterologists,  Mike Thomson, was a member of the guideline development group.

Things behind the news 

Health News shock horror....do you want to check out the truth behind the latest health 'news' then this is the place to go - Behind the Headlines 

Remember that the library staff can help you find clinical evidence to support you in your work, see more about the range of our services here

Things creative..ish..

I decided to have a go at book folding last week - here is my first attempt - it may have a future life as next year's Christmas decorations! Please don't do this to your library books.

I used an old copy of the BNF which has to be discarded when the new one arrives. If you always want to be sure of accessing the BNF or BNF for Children then you can download an app for your phone/tablet - you need to have a current NHS Open Athens account to access the information. If you don't yet have an Athens accout which also gives you access to a variety of electronic resources then find out more and apply here.

Things (people) in the library

On a Tuesday or Thursday morning you may find someone sat at Sarah's desk who isn't Sarah...Jac works here a few hours each work processing Open Athens applications but at other times you will find her in Audiology. She has suggested this week's recipe Chocolate and pumpkin seed biscuits and tells us the Audiology team like her biscuits..we have noted the fact that she hasn't made biscuits for us ....but are trying not to feel hurt! 

Things in the library 9 Jan

Happy New Year
We wish all our blog readers and library users a Happy New Year

Things happening 
InfoBites in the library on Tuesday 13 Jan (next week) at 13:00 for 20 mins on Google Searching for everyone - tips and tricks...this is a re-run of a previous session. Please come along with your lunch if you wish and enjoy our cakey bites.

Things for neonates
On Monday 5 January the number of conditions newborn babies are screened for in England increased following a successful pilot study led by Sheffield Children's, Professor Jim Bonham was national lead for the project. Full details here

Things published
NICE has published an evidence update "Spasticity in children and young people with non-progressive brain disorders" find the full text here. This is a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE clinical guideline ’Spasticity in children and young people with non-progressive brain disorders: management of spasticity and co-existing motor disorders and their early musculoskeletal complications’ (2012)
Public Health England has published a support pack for A & E departments 'Young people's hospital alcohol pathway' read it here
It is aimed at A&E clinicians, hospital managers, substance misuse and young people’s commissioners and includes a set of key questions or prompts for professionals to help them develop care pathways within A&E and into other services for young people.

Things about CAMHS
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust (The Tavistock) and the Anna Freud Centre (AFC) formed a consortium to further develop and refine a new model for CAMHS based on their shared thinking in this area: this is now known as the THRIVE model.
They say:
"We are sharing our thinking as it develops to help inform the current national debate on the future of CAMHS and as a basis for future provision. We are not presenting THRIVE as a tried and tested one-size-fits-all implementation model, nor is the language and terminology for different groups fixed at this point. Whilst AFC and Tavistock do have thoughts on implementation in particular contexts, this paper does not purport to be a how-to guide.
We feel that the THRIVE model offers a radical shift in the way that services are conceptualised and potentially delivered, along with suggestions for how they might be reviewed and improved. Through wider discussion,planning and, in time, the commissioning processes, the model will appropriately undergo refinements anddevelopments as to how it can be applied to local contexts. "

A search for CAMHS on our library catalogue will give you a link to this resource.

Two things for health visitors

• The Department of Health is developing an outcome measure of child development at age 2 – 2½ years, the data for which will be here published in the Public Health Outcomes Framework from 2015 find out more 
• NHS England has published the new health visiting (HV) service specification for 2015-16. Read the full text here

Things done well by the University of Sheffield
The results of REF 2014 demonstrate world-leading excellence, impact and strength across all departments within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health:

• Biomedical research  was ranked No 1 for world-leading quality in the UK.
•  84% of research across the Faculty was assessed as being world-leading 
• For clinical medicine, 84% of our research outputs were judged to be world-leading 
•  Schools of Dentistry, Nursing and Human Communication Sciences (HCS) together ranked 12th of 94 in the UK for their world-leading and internationally excellent research
• 95% of the work in the School of Health & Related Research (ScHaRR) was top rated for impact, the second highest score in the UK. 

More things on research

Do you need to know what work is being done in your field?  Find research in your area of interest with a quick and 

easy search on the European Union Clinical Trials Register 

..keeping the European theme

Things to make

Although it is a few days late (hope all your decorations are down!) but a special food made in France the 

‘La Galette des Rois’ is made for the Epiphany, traditionally observed on January 6th, a biblical date to celebrate the arrival of Magi (also known as the three Kings or the three Wise Men) visiting Jesus in his manger. Find a recipe here. The custom is to hide a little charm or fève within, and the lucky guest who finds it is crowned King or Queen. So when you buy a Galette des Rois in the bakery, a paper crown will be included.

Things in the library 12 Dec

Things about Christmas opening..and closing

Mon 15 & Tues 16  Dec         08:45 - 17:00

Wed 17 & Thur 18   Dec  Closed for Stocktaking

Fri 19 Dec                         08:45 - 17:00

Mon 22 & Tues 23 Dec    08:45 - 17:00

Weds 24 Dec to Fri 2  Jan Closed

Re-open Mon 5 Jan                 08:45 - 19:00

During this time there are also some services available at Health Sciences Library, Medical School, Royal Hallamshire Hospital see here for details

Things to make us blush
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our blog readers and library users for the nice things they have said about us in the last year..so if you will forgive us for blowing our own (seasonal) trumpet....

"The searches that I have asked the library to do have always been really helpful and saved me time, allowing me to continue with clinical work as well as service development. I think it is an amazing service.

"Our Clinical Librarians rock!"

"The search was excellent. Thank you so much. It is so important for us to use the evidence base, but there is so little time for us to look into this."

"I signed up for a fantastic free course that I wouldn't have known about if it weren't for the blog."

"Very good, friendly staff and the library may be hidden gem come revision time"

"Fantastic, lovely library and staff. Being trusted to eat and drink is a massive plus"

Things edible

And so of course a seasonal recipe for our last blog of the year..and 

a bit of challenge..well it would be for me anyway!

Gingerbread House

Merry Christmas from Sarah, Gill & Kate

Things in the library 5 Dec

Things going live
A new system to help doctors and nurses spot children suffering from abuse and neglect has successfully gone live. Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust are the first hospitals in the country to use the new Child Protection - Information Sharing (CP-IS) system which is designed to help avoid tragic cases such as Baby P being repeated. Read about it here
The system will now be rolled out across the country, connecting emergency departments, out of hours GPs, walk in centres and local authorities through a national system that will alert clinical staff to those at risk of abuse or neglect.

Things pledged
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has set to pledge an extra £150m of funding to help children with eating disorders.The aim is to invest in preventative therapy to cut the need for hospital treatment.The money, earmarked in this year's Autumn Statement, comes after figures show that admissions for eating disorders among young people have been rising in England.

Things in the press...be careful 
A pill to cure binge drinking and dementia according to Daily Mail The science was covered by the Mail Online, which exaggerated the findings in this open-access article by implying the rat results also applied to humans and binge drinking, as well as Alzheimer's and other "brain diseases". This may be the case, but it is too early to say with any confidence or assurance. The study did not test the effects of the drug, even in animal models of Alzheimer's or non-alcohol-related brain diseases. Read the true story here.

Using evidence as a basis for best practice is what we are about in the library. Don't forget we can do literature searches for you or with you and you can also attend our journal club. For other sources of evidence check out our webpage here

Things to huddle over
It's good to talk, we're always told. And now child health expert Dr Peter Lachman says "huddles" - informal meetings of hospital staff - are a simple way of improving children's hospital care. Based on a model pioneered in Cincinnati Children's Hospital, the RCPCH have conducted trials of quality improving techniques including the huddle. Read about it here

Things that went ..SNAP!
No not the knicker elastic..anyone else old enough to actually remember knicker elastic???...anyway I digress... last weekend completely coincidentally Gill & Sarah made the same dish at home and pronounced it excellent so we thought that should be this weeks recipe. Goat's cheese & thyme stuffed chicken - fresh thyme preferable to dried and I used pancetta slices instead of streaky bacon..both worked well.

Things in the library 28 Nov

Things to listen to
I have been listening to the first of the Reith lectures on BBCRadio 4 this week and can thoroughly recommend it as a thought provoking and stimulating listen for anyone working in healthcare. The series is entitled 'The Future in Medicine' and the lecturer is Atul Gawande who is a practising surgeon at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Professor at both the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. He’s well known for his writing on medicine, and his research on medical error and performance. In the first lecture of four, 'Why do Doctors Fail?' he explores the nature of imperfection in medicine. In particular, Gawande will examine how much of failure in medicine remains due to ignorance, and how much is due to ineptitude - and what that means for where medical progress will come from in the future. It's available on iplayer here and there is also a transcript but he is a moving speaker so do listen.

Things published
New NICE guideline on 'Obesity: identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in children, young people and adults' 
Public Health England has published National Child Measurement Programme: Changes in children’s BMI between 2006/7 and 2012/13. This report is the fifth in a series of annual reports which use National Child Measurement Programme data to examine the changes in children’s body mass index (BMI) that have taken place since 2006/07. It summarises changes in prevalence of obesity and excess weight, mean BMI (adjusted for age) and changes across the BMI distribution. Analysis has also been conducted to examine changes by level of socioeconomic deprivation and by ethnic group.
NHS Employers have issued guidance on helping managers in the NHS reduce stress in the workplace and to better support those experiencing it.
Department of Health has published a major new report on new technologies, which you may have heard in the media will include the digitisation of the 'Red Book' or personal child health record. The policy paper 'Personalised health and care 2020:a framework for action is online by clicking the link
In Evidence Based Medicne an article 'Psychological therapies help reduce headache and non-headache pain in children and adolescents' has been published which is a commentary on:Eccleston C, Palermo TM, Williams AC, et al. 'Psychological therapies for the management of chronic and recurrent pain in children and adolescents'. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2014

Things available online
As an NHS employee, you have extra months left to access Springer´s medical and health content for free. Now you can read and download content until the 31st of December.
Go to health.springer.com and access 1800+ eJournals (post 1997) and 40,000+ eBook titles (post 2005) without charge or obligation! You will need your NHS Athens login details

Things blogged

Andy Tattersall Information Specialist at University of Sheffield working at ScHARR has written an interesting blog on peer review

Things to come to
Jouranl Club next week on Wed 3 Dec at 17:30 where the paper being discussed is 'Antibiotics for bronchiolitis in children under two years of age'
and advanced notice of our next Infobite 20 min introductory session on Tuesday 9th Dec 'Why Social media?

Source https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140620185414-21198502-four-ways-that-social-media-marketing-works

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Things in the Library 14Nov

Things published
Latest NICE Eyes on Evidence bulletin here

Things to get published
Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? You could try JANE (Journal/Author Name Estimator) for suggestions

Things about Mental health
Teenage anxiety has been in the news this week
Epic friends is a website for young people helping friends who are struggling.
Health Committee - Third Report on Children's and adolescents' mental health and CAMHS has been published the report concludes that there are serious and deeply ingrained problems with the commissioning and provision of children's and adolescents' mental health services. These problems run through the whole system from prevention and early intervention through to inpatient services for the most vulnerable young people. The committee recommends the development, implementation and monitoring of national minimum service specifications, together with an audit of spending on CAMHS. It further recommends that the Department of Health/NHS England taskforce look to remove the perverse incentives that act as a barrier to Tier 3.5 service development and ensure investment in early intervention services. It also recommends a clear national policy directive for CAMHS, underpinned by adequate funding.

Things to get up early for - unless you are working nights
A free 30 min webinar to sign up for at 5.00 am Monday 24 Nov by PEMSoft on Pediatric Procedures; Pain Management and Sedation - join Kelly Young, MD, MS for a short lecture reviewing pain management options using a clinical scenario of a child that is not tolerating a Lumbar Puncture. Details here and link to sign up

Things you missed? 
If you missed our InfoBites session this week on Evernote find out more about it and why I find it useful to organise my life...and the rest of the family's! YouTube videos here (don't be put off by the USA accents!)




Things today
World  Diabetes day today with suggestions and facts about how we can reduce the global burden of diabetes more information here  and why a healthy breakfast would help.

Things next week

Journal club Thursday 20th Nov in the morning - watch our for emails from Sarah with further details.

Things on your smartphone?

health apps library

The NHS have said they would like the children's current 'red book' online from 2016 and also plan a seal of approval or 'kitemark' for health apps - you can already view recommended apps here in the NHS choices health apps library

A guest recipe suggestion

As recommended and made by Nigel Humphreys (SCH Critical Care Consultant) - if you have a favourite recipe you would like us to feature on the blog please let us know. It is a Paul Hollywood recipe found here