Things in the library 1st Jun

New things for clinical audit

NICE is developing a new tool to help health and social care organisations audit the improvements they are making to their services. It is part of a redesign of the audit support NICE provides.
"We have changed our approach to audit support to focus on NICE quality standards, as the statements they contain are designed to drive measurable service improvements," said Sally Chisholm, NICE’s programme director for adoption and impact.
The package of support is in its final stages of development and the first tool will be available this summer.   See the news article  here

Things for Health Care Assistants

First Steps for HCAs has been developed as a programme for self-directed learning. It maps to a range of National Occupational Standards that can be printed off in the form of an assessment checklist that could form the basis of a portfolio of learning. Find the competency checklist, assessment quiz and reflective diary here.

Challenging things

In a challenge to the new Government, the RCPCH sets out what it believes needs to be done in the first 100 days to ensure the UK delivers high quality, effective child health services - and that child health is high on the political agenda.

The paper calls on the new Government to define a cross-departmental Child Health Strategy, agree measurable targets to evaluate progress, and appoint a Children’s Minister to coordinate and direct integration across health, education, and social care.


Library Things happening this week and next

Journal club - Wed 3rd June -  5.30 - 6.30pm Education & Skills Centre, Stephenson Wing
Does UTI cause prolonged jaundice in otherwise well infants?

Ryegate Library clinic - Friday 5th June  -  1.30-3pm  - Ryegate Therapy block

Introduction to Critical Appraisal - Friday 12th June -  6 places remaining.  
Email coursebookings@sch.nhs.uk  



Seasonal things to cook

Asparagus, goat's cheese & smoked bacon quiche

Make the most of seasonal asparagus with this made-for-picnics quiche

Find the recipe here

Things in the library 22 May

Things opening and closing
We will be closed for the Bank Holiday on Monday 25 May. We will then be open the rest of the week but closing at 17:00 each day due to staff holidays (yipee!). If you need to return items when we are closed please remember there is a book drop box outside the library.

Picture by Hay Kranen / PD'.

Things happening soon
The next Journal Club will be on Wed  3 June 17:30 - 18:30 and the paper being discussed is 'Does UTI cause prolonged jaundice in otherwise well infants?' if you work in the trust you are all welcome to come along - there will be muffins. Email the library if you would like a copy of the paper.

Introduction to Critical Appraisal Friday12 June 09:30-13:00
Book onto this course by email: coursebookings@sch.nhs.uk in order to:

• Understand the principles of critical appraisal and why you should do it
• Be able to appraise published research and judge its reliability
• Be able to assess the relevance of published research to your own work

Things that have changed a bit 

The TRIP Database (an excellent source of evidence to health professionals) has had a bit of a relaunch. If you don't know about TRIP and what it does there is an excellent infographic here

Things about safeguarding

‘Working Together and Keeping Children Safe' Changes to Safeguarding Guidance in 2015 1 July 2015 Holiday Inn Royal Victoria Hotel, Sheffield,

This conference will explore recent changes to government guidance regarding 'allegations against people who work with children', 'notifiable incidents', and 'the definition of serious harm for the purpose of serious case reviews' as outlined in the revisions to 'Working Together to Safeguard Children', and 'Keeping Children Safe in Education' 2015.  Details here

Things from RCPCH & RCN

'Facing the Future Together for Child Health' is a new set of standards which builds on the 'Facing the Future: Standards for Acute General Paediatric Services' expanding them to acute care outside the hospital. The standards apply across the unscheduled care pathway and aim to improve health care and outcomes for children and young people with acute illness.

Things about clinical research with children

The Nuffield Council on BIoethics have published 'Children and clinical research: ethical issues'

Things about apps 

The Royal College of Physicians has published Using apps in clinical practice,this guidance aims to provide clinicians and medical app developers with important information about the use of apps in clinical practice

Things pink and yummy

I love rhubarb and I'm hoping to make these  Rhubarb & ginger syllabubs this weekend as a change from the normal crumble or cobbler.

Things in the library 8 May 2015

Things hopefully back on track soon
Apologies for a lack of communication recently. We have been 'a woman down' for the past 3 weeks so Sarah and Gill are trying to keep services going without too much disruption. We wish Kate a speedy recovery and hope to see her back in the library soon.

Things for the future
Facing the Future Together for Child Health is a new set of standards, developed jointly by the RCPCH, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).It builds on the Facing the Future: Standards for Acute General Paediatric Services expanding them to acute care outside the hospital. The standards apply across the unscheduled care pathway and aim to improve health care and outcomes for children and young people with acute illness.



Things about person centred, coordinated care
'My life, my support, my choice' is a narrative report on children and young people with complex lives, from their perspective and that of the people who are important to them. Commissioners and providers are encouraged to use this document as a tool to have their own conversations with children and young people about their lives, their dreams and goals, and the way they want to be supported.It is hoped that it may empower children & young people and those around them to challenge their local services, to start conversations with them, and get involved in designing services and support.




Things in the library next week

Infobites  on 'Keeping up to date' are you drowning in information or do you think that you are missing out? If so then come along to this 20 min session to get some tips and tricks please note starting at 12:00 Tuesday 12th May (earlier than usual) but free cakes still available or bring your lunch to munch whilst you listen.

Journal Club on Wednesday 13 May 17:30 - 18:30 the paper being discussed is "Use of time from fever onset improves the diagnostic accuracy of C-reactive protein in identifying bacterial infections" Segal I, et al. Arch Dis Child 2014;99:974–978 and of course another muffin opportunity!

Things about Epilepsies
NICE have published a costing statement relating to implementing NICE guidance. 'The epilepsies: the diagnosis and management of the epilepsies in adults and children in primary and secondary care (partial update of NICE clinical guideline 20)'.

Stanley Royle, From Yorkshire Hills to Derbyshire Hills
 (1919) © the estate of Stanley Royle

Things to see
The Great Outdoors - Paintings by Stanley Royle at Graves Art Gallery  finishes at the end of May so if you want to see this major retrospective exhibition, the first in almost 30 years, don't miss it.

Dog and boy (detail) by Laurence Cartwright, 2013
© Laurence Cartwright

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2014 has just opened at the Millenium Gallery and it is the only chance to see one of the country’s leading photography exhibitions outside of London. The exhibition premiered at the National Portrait Gallery last year.

Things orange 
Two excellent things for you to try here: Sarah's marmalade muffins and a recipe for making marmalade

Things in the library 17 April

Things for better working 

Check out the Co-creation network  the network warmly welcomes everyone who is interested in learning new ways of working better together, testing and supporting change and exploring the answers to those questions which matter most across our health and social care systems

Things published
A recent list of articles published by Wiley here in their paediatric newsletter. Some of these may be available to you via your NHS Open Athens account but if you have any problems ask us to help

Things NICE have updated 
Evidence Updates highlight new evidence relating to published accredited guidance. They are based on the scope of the particular guidance they relate to and provide a commentary on a selection of new articles published since the guidance was issued. In particular,
Evidence Updates highlight key points from the new evidence and provide a commentary describing its strengths and weaknesses recent child health ones are on: Psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people (March 2015)  Feverish illness in children (Feb 2015)

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Things about looked-after children 
Depts of Health and Education have published their statuary guidance for promoting the health and well-being of looked-after children - find it online here





Things to keep you up-to-date  e-prompt
Don't forget our e-prompt service which delivers to your inbox information recently published in your subject sign up here...remember this is telling you what is out there... access to full text isn't always available directly so you might need to request articles from us

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Things you want us to buy? 
We will be doing a book order soon so if you have specific books that you think would be useful for us to buy you can always make suggestions. Check our catalogue first to see what we already have on your subject.





Things to visit 
Just across the road in Weston Park the latest exhibition Life on the Edge: Ice Age Frontier is in conjunction with Creswell Heritage Trust on now until Sept 20th. Creswell Crags, 20 miles south east of Sheffield, was once Europe’s northern frontier of settlement. During this period of great climate change between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, a series of caves at Creswell provided occasional shelter to nomadic hunters in search of food.

Things to sit on
Just back from the upholsterers - our comfy chairs are back so you can sit and read in comfort.

Things in the library 23rd March

Improving things
Future in mind: Promoting, protecting and improving our children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. A report of the work of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Taskforce published 17th March

Proposals are set out to improve mental health services for young people by 2020. Read it here

Sweet things
A new WHO guideline recommends adults and children reduce their daily intake of free sugars to less than 10% of their total energy intake. 

These are the sugars that are to foods and drinks by the manufacturer, cook or consumer, and sugars naturally present in honey, syrups, fruit juices and fruit juice concentrates.Read it here

Savoury muffins at Journal Club from now on then?!




Effect of sweet things
Nearly half of eight-year-olds and a third of five-year-olds have signs of decay in their milk teeth. 

The 2013 Children's Dental Health Survey for England, Wales and Northern Ireland also found that 46% of 15-year-olds had decay in their teeth. But there were signs of improvement compared with 10 years ago, with an overall reduction in the number of cavities in children's teeth.


Fluttery things
Butterfly Evolution: From Jungles to Genomes, 
An exhibition at The Winter Garden on Wednesday 25th March 12:00 - 8.00pm. part of the Sheffield Festival of Science & Engineering
See how scientists are using the wing patterns of Heliconious butterflies from South America to understand how genes control the diversity of animal patterning.
With live butterflies, games, puzzles and hands-on demonstrations!

Feverish things
Journal Club - Wed 25th March 17.30 - 18.30pm  

"Once-daily amoxicillin versus twice-daily penicillin V in group A b-haemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis"
Presenter: Deirde O'Donnell

 Please email the library if you would like a copy of the paper 

Muffins and free drinks!

Things opening : Library Easter Hours
The library will close at 5pm rather than 7pm on:
Tues 31st March
Tues 7th April
Weds 8th April
Thurs 9th April
Fri 10th April



5 a day things
Muffins for journal club this week











               

                           Raspberry coffee time muffins
Fruity vegetable muffins

Things in the library 9th March

Things in 3D
You will no doubt have seen the imaginative uses being made of 3D printers in various branches of medicine. There is some interesting research just published by scientists at University of Sheffield using a 3D printed guide to help nerves damaged in traumatic incidents repair themselves. Read here
about it and watch a video

Things published
Nice Quality Standard on Inflammatory Bowel Disease has just been published read it here.

Fab things
Check out the new Academy of Fabulous NHS Stuff website created by Roy Lilley which aims to share all the fabulous things about the NHS. A collaboration to ensure best practice examples, great ideas and service solutions are available to all.


Things exciting
We were thrilled to be nominated this year for a Star award for "Outstanding contribution by a non-clinical department". The library supports Evidence Based Medicine, Clinical Governance, Clinical Effectiveness and Patient Safety by undertaking literature searches and supplying articles which can be used to guide the treatment patients of the trust. In addition, utilizing the information skills of the library staff saves clinicians an enormous amount of time. If you wish to find out more about this service please contact us. Sadly we didn't win...this year!

Event things in (or near) the library
Infobites - Tues 10th March at 13:00
Find out 'what is a literature search', 'what do you need to know to do one', 'where to do one', and 'what next' - a quick introduction and overview. All welcome come along for 20 mins and get a bite to eat and a bite of information

Journal Club - Wed 11th March 17.30 - 18.30
Presenter: Alfred Njobvu,
Paper:  "Occult bacteraemia is uncommon in febrile infants who appear well, and close clinical follow-up is more appropriate than blood tests" - please email the library if you would like a copy of the paper - muffins and free drinks!

Introduction to critical appraisal course Thur 12th Mar 9.30  - 13.00
Understand the principles of critical appraisal and why you should do it be able to appraise published research and judge its reliability be able to assess the relevance of published research to your own work  *5 places left  email coursebookings@sch.nhs.uk NOW to book *

Event things in elsewhere in Sheffield
Sheffield Festival of Science & Engineering events are taking place at the moment and continuing up to Thurs 26 March. This provides a wonderful opportunity for schools and colleges, families and individuals to engage with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) at all levels. Whether hearing from experts about the latest advances in research or simply discovering that science and technology can be fun everything from micromachines that can swim around inside the body, talks on friction, colour, spirals and science around the home. Details here

Things biscuity
If you remember Sheffield's own Howard Middleton from 'Great British Bake Off' then you might like to try these recent recipes he put on his blog. They have a flowery theme which seems appropriate now we are official into Spring Marigold Melts and Rose-scented raspberry biscuits