Podcast

Bookshelfie: Maggie O’Farrell

Source: Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast

What better way to discover new books than through recommendations from the shelves of inspiring women?

In this episode 2020 Women’s Prize winner Maggie O’Farrell joins Vick Hope and reveals what it was like to win the prize over a zoom call and what level of research is really required to write a masterpiece like Hamnet – a moving exploration of death and grief in Elizabethan England told through the story of William Shakespeare’s real life son Hamnet.

Listen to the podcast here

Library Bulletins

Learning Disabilities and Community Health

The current bulletins for Learning Disabilities and Community Health, produced by Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust, are now available to view and download.

For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletins please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

World Book Night

23rd April 2023

Find out which books have been selected for World Book Night 2023. Featuring fiction, non-fiction, Quick Reads and audiobooks for adults and young people aged 16+, this list has something to encourage everyone to pick up a book. Take a look at the booklist for inspiration.

British Medical Association Report

The country is getting sicker: The urgent need to address growing health inequalities and protect our health in the face of an economic crisis.

This report contains anonymous testimonials from doctors, patients,
and carers across the UK about their experiences of a country that is
getting sicker in the face of an economic crisis.

Read the report here.

ICD-11

International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)

The ICD provides a common language that allows health professionals to share standardised information across the world. It is the foundation for identifying health trends and statistics worldwide, containing around 17 000 unique codes for injuries, diseases and causes of death, underpinned by more than 120 000 codable terms. By using code combinations, more than 1.6 million clinical situations can now be coded.

Compared with previous versions, ICD-11 is entirely digital with a new user-friendly format and multilingual capabilities that reduce the chance of error. It has been compiled and updated with input from over 90 countries and unprecedented involvement of health-care providers, enabling evolution from a system imposed on clinicians into a truly enabling clinical classification and terminology database that serves a broad range of uses for recording and reporting statistics on health.

Click here to use ICD-11.