LKS North Blog https://www.lksnorth.nhs.uk/blog/ Articulate, blogging built on Umbraco 15011 https://www.lksnorth.nhs.uk/blog/posts/northumbria-book-club-new-developments/ Northern Lights Northumbria Book Club – New Developments <p>We launched our Book club in February 2019 to highlight the benefits of leisure reading for clinical staff and students and to promote the library to non-users. Every month, we choose a Book of the month, which is displayed in our 4 libraries and recommended on social media. Our choices often tie in with topical events, for example, Women and power for International Women’s Day and Life on our planet for NHS Sustainability Day. We run a Facebook poll to choose a summer reading Book of the month and select a Christmas book for December – Twas the nightshift before Christmas is one of our most popular BOTMs so far.</p> <p><br />One of our early objectives was to take the Book club out of the libraries to communicate with people who didn’t already use us. We had regular book stalls at Grand round, outside the hospital restaurants and at Trust inductions and attended all the Trust’s conferences. The pandemic prevented these activities or moved them online, so last year we ran the Book club challenge as an alternative way of encouraging library members and non-members to read. We deliberately made it unchallenging – read 3 books between September and Christmas and write a short review of each one. Everyone who completed the challenge received a goody bag. Ninety people registered for the challenge, of whom 21 were new members. We are running the Book club challenge again this year.</p> <p><strong><img style="width: 353.698px; height: 500px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://www.lksnorth.nhs.uk/media/2739/bc-challenge-poster-2022.jpg?width=353.6977491961415&amp;height=500" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/f5579bd7a93f4b0d82643bb7f8b16406" /></strong><br />Two of the comments below this post on Facebook:<br /><br /><em>“Have said for way too long need to make more time for reading……I’m definitely in”<br /></em><br /><em>“Oh I love this idea. Great for the mind and wellbeing and making time to chill a little. Love this </em>🙂<em>”</em><br /><br />A recent innovation has been inviting a local author to join us. Our Book Club works closely with the Trust’s Staff Network Groups and support as many of their initiatives as we can.<br /><a href="http://library.northumbria.nhs.uk/staff-networks/">http://library.northumbria.nhs.uk/staff-networks/</a><br /><br /><img style="width: 353.698px; height: 500px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://www.lksnorth.nhs.uk/media/2740/book-of-the-month-oct-2022.jpg?width=353.6977491961415&amp;height=500" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/a4c00191f5434f72b12dc89904ed302a" /><br /><br />For Black History Month 2022 our Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) staff network Chair arranged for a visit by Kayode Akinropo, the author of Scars do heal. We bought multiple copies of the book and advertised the author visit in our libraries and in the Trust’s Facebook page. On the day, Kayode arrived with his wife, both dressed in their traditional Nigerian costume. He read to us from the book, an account of a young Nigerian boy called Tayo and his family as he grows up and struggles to gain an education. There were lots of questions from the audience about the book, how Kayode writes and whether he will write another novel. And then we had a lively discussion about the different education systems in Britain and Nigeria, with many of the audience sharing their memories of growing up in different countries. <a href="http://library.northumbria.nhs.uk/staff-networks/">http://library.northumbria.nhs.uk/2022/11/03/scars-do-heal/</a><br /><br /></p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.667px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://www.lksnorth.nhs.uk/media/2741/kayode-in-his-national-costume.jpg?width=500&amp;height=281.6666666666667" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/7238170dafa74ebca49edaeebf391fdb" /> </p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height: 292.727px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://www.lksnorth.nhs.uk/media/2742/author-visit.jpg?width=500&amp;height=292.7272727272727" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/837f341d0c60453592875ae5f88601b9" /></p> <p>Another new development that we’re very enthusiastic about is sharing our Book club collections with other libraries. We have already sent some books to a couple of local NHS libraries and are now ready to promote this more widely. Whether you would like to start your own Book club or want to support colleagues setting up reading groups, you can borrow quantities of our Book club titles. See more information and get in touch <a href="http://library.northumbria.nhs.uk/book-club-2/">here</a> </p> Wed, 30 Nov 2022 12:20:47 Z 2022-11-30T12:20:47Z 10484 https://www.lksnorth.nhs.uk/blog/posts/the-leeds-teaching-hospitals-nhs-trust-library-information-service-update-june-2021/ LKS Updates The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Library & Information Service update June 2021 <p>In common with services everywhere, the service we have been able to provide over the past year has been coloured by the Trust’s response to COVID-19 and the guidance around that.  The physical service was provided from the Library &amp; Evidence Research Centre at Leeds General Infirmary, with staff coming into LGI on a rota to maintain safe minimal staffing, and working from home the rest of the time.  We managed to maintain five-day opening for much of the year, but dropped to three days for March and April 2021, and are now back up to four days a week.  Alongside the physical service we promoted electronic access, continued to deliver our literature search and enquiry services, and moved training over to remote delivery.</p> <p> </p> <p>The physical space at the LGI became a base for various staff across the site who needed a safe place to work, and this use has continued alongside people returning to use it for its original purpose.</p> <p> </p> <p>Our service points at our other sites (St James’s Hospital and Wharfedale Hospital) have remained either closed or on restricted access to staff in those parts of the site because of how the Trust designated buildings and parts of buildings (hot/cold, green/amber/red - take your pick!)</p> <p> </p> <p>During the year the service was successful in obtaining funding from the Leeds Hospitals Charity (our charitable body) to develop a two new collections to support very different aspects of Trust activity.</p> <p> </p> <p>One collection was developed by Daniel Park working with our Chaplaincy Team, and is a small collection of books aimed at supporting spirituality and the spiritual wellbeing of staff and patients.  This links to the work being done elsewhere in the Trust to support the physical and mental wellbeing of staff throughout the pandemic and beyond.</p> <p> </p> <p>The second collection was developed by Beth Tapster as part of a wider project to support the work of the Trust’s BME Network.  This collection of books asks challenging questions about racism and racial inequalities and discrimination in health and employment, and is part of a Trustwide workstream which includes reciprocal mentoring and an Allyship programme.  There is more information about this collection in an interview at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0e0APi4pks">New BME-specific books and resources available for Leeds Teaching Hospitals staff - YouTube</a> </p> <p> </p> <p>The Trust has not permitted face-to-face training for anything other than clinical or physical skills which cannot be taught online this year.  As a result, most of the normal training programme was cancelled, and offered only as one-to-one sessions over Teams.  However, some group sessions which are run specifically for other departments were converted and run as remote modules.</p> <p> </p> <p>The <em>First Steps</em> programme is an introductory programme for staff wishing to develop research skills and explore the idea of “research”.  This was developed in discussion with the R&amp;I Team is is run under the umbrella of the Research Academy.  It had only run once in pilot before covid struck, so during the year the content was revisited and reworked for online delivery.  Two more cohorts have now finished the programme, with a fourth underway, and although not quite the same as face to face, it does seem to be working well, with the team growing in confidence with each successive cohort.</p> <p> </p> <p>The same may be said about sessions which are delivered on two certificate courses in the Trust - the Certificate in Adult Critical Care Nursing run by the Trust as a delivery partner for Manchester Metropolitan University, and a Certificate in Anaesthetic Nursing run with Huddersfield University.  Both courses had stopped during the height of the pandemic but started again this year, and the sessions for both were again run successfully online.</p> <p> </p> <p><u>Publications</u></p> <p> </p> <p>Adam M. Galloway, et al</p> <p><u>A systematic review of the non-surgical treatment of Perthes’ disease</u></p> <p><em>Bone &amp; Joint Open</em> 2020 1:12, 720-730</p> <p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1302/2633-1462.112.BJO-2020-0138.R1">https://doi.org/10.1302/2633-1462.112.BJO-2020-0138.R1</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Alunno A, Najm A, Mariette X, et al</p> <p><u>Immunomodulatory therapies for SARS-CoV-2 infection: a systematic literature review to inform EULAR points to consider</u></p> <p><em>Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases</em> 2021;80:803-815</p> <p><a href="https://ard.bmj.com/content/80/6/803">https://ard.bmj.com/content/80/6/803</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Najm A, Alunno A, Mariette X, et al</p> <p><u>Pathophysiology of acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection: a systematic literature review to inform EULAR points to consider</u></p> <p><em>RMD Open</em> 2021;7:e001549. doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2020-001549</p> <p><a href="https://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/7/1/e001549">https://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/7/1/e001549</a></p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: right;"><em><strong>Paul Twiddy</strong></em><br /><em><strong>Library &amp; Information Service Manager</strong></em></p> Tue, 08 Jun 2021 14:45:48 Z 2021-06-08T14:45:48Z 7681 https://www.lksnorth.nhs.uk/blog/posts/stepping-up-programme-at-northumbria-hospital/ Northern Lights Stepping Up programme at Northumbria Hospital <p>Vasanthi Elder, librarian at our Northumbria Hospital, says the Stepping Up programme was a real ‘game changer’ in her career.</p> <p><em>To see the full blog article please follow the link below.</em></p> <p><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/blog/vasanthi-elder/?fbclid=IwAR1velVStnlxrTdti5k0l14i9QQaTHKS5evmT3Ukw1ZVLEG3UYkiK1kLKQo" target="_blank" data-anchor="?fbclid=IwAR1velVStnlxrTdti5k0l14i9QQaTHKS5evmT3Ukw1ZVLEG3UYkiK1kLKQo">"Stepping Up" programme </a></p> Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:45:28 Z 2020-10-22T20:45:28Z
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