The Gosall Library, February 2021
Read this week’s bulletin on Suicide Prevention
E-books
Proquest E-book Central
We are pleased to announce that the Trust now has access to the industry’s premier ebook platform which offers scholarly ebooks from leading publishers. Proquest E-book Central is being trialled within the Trust to allow staff to access over 180 thousand e-books across all disciplinaries.
The platform is accessible with an Open Athens account. Access the platform here: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/lscbhsft/home.action (please ensure you have logged in with your Open Athens details first).
The platform allows you to search for a given title or browse the collections. From there you are able to read the whole text online, download the book for up to 21 days, or download a PDF chapter.
The Library team are always keen to hear feedback about the resources available to staff. Please email: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk with any comments, feedback, suggestions or book title recommendations.
Please feel free to download and display the E-book poster to share with your department and staff.
Covid
Current Awareness Updates
Covid-19 recovery and resilience: what can health and care learn from other disasters? The King’s Fund
What do communities need to be able to recover from Covid-19 and build resilience? This long read identifies key insights from people involved in disaster recovery around the world.
Covid-19: rapid point of care or near-person testing for service providers Public Health England
(This guidance, aimed at service providers, describes the main types of coronavirus (Covid-19) tests currently available for use in point of care or near-person settings.)
Factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine uptake among minority ethnic groups, 17 December 2020.
Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE); 2021.
(Paper by the ethnicity sub-group on factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine uptake among minority ethnic groups. It was considered at SAGE 73 on 17 December 2020. The paper is the assessment of the evidence at the time of writing.)
COVID-19 Clinical management: living guidance.
World Health Organization (WHO); 2021.
(This document is the update of interim guidance published in May 2020. This guideline now also includes Best Practice Statement on caring for COVID-19 patients after their acute illness and 5 new recommendations.)
Prioritising the first COVID-19 vaccine dose: JCVI statement.
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC); 2021.
(Statement from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) about increasing the short-term impact of the COVID-19 vaccination programme. Updated 26 January 2021: Added document ‘Annex B: comparison between 1 and 2 dose prioritisation for a fixed number of doses’.)
COVID-19: Ensuring a quality patient experience with the rise of digitisation in a healthcare setting.
Mobiquity; 2021.
(This report, commissioned by Mobiquity and conducted by Censuswide, reveals that half of UK patients aged over 55 preferred digital tools instead of in-person consultations during COVID-19. The most preferred digital tools used by over 55s included remote monitoring (50%) and video examinations (50%).)
Covid Virtual Ward (secondary care).
Wessex Academic Health Science Network (AHSN); 2021.
(The Covid Virtual Ward model is a secondary care led initiative to support early and safe discharge (step down) for Covid patients and builds on the Covid Oximetry @home model. NHS England and Improvement has now written out to all ICSs and trusts in the country; outlining why this work must be implemented, and how to do it.)
Meet the Author
Neil White
Best-selling author Neil White is a criminal lawyer as well as a crime writer.
He was born above a shoe shop in Mexborough, a small northern mining town, and grew up on an estate on the edge of Wakefield. His father worked in the shoe trade but seemed happiest when he was reading a book, and he filled the house with them: sci-fi, horror and history books. And if it wasn’t books, it was Johnny Cash who took over.
Neil’s books were initially set in America but after rewriting them to change their settings to England he had more success. After swapping Chicago for London and Indiana for a small town in Lancashire he caught the interest of a publisher.
He veered away from crime briefly and wrote the book he had always wanted to write, Lost In Nashville. He had always wanted to visit the places Johnny Cash sang about, so he did, but crafted a book from it. It is a tale of a father and son who travel Johnny Cash’s life and songs and try to reconnect along the way. It is his favourite of all his books, purely because it has so much emotional resonance for him.
Eventually Neil gave up full-time lawyering and turned mainly to writing, although he still practices as a freelance lawyer.
Neil has kindly answered a few questions for us about books that have entertained and inspired him and his work as an author.
Read the interview here.
Read more about Neil, his love of Johnny Cash, his books and his career on his website.
Psychiatric Nursing
Current Awareness Bulletin
The February bulletin on psychiatric nursing, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download.
For any issues accessing journal articles or Open Athens accounts please email: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
Toolkit
Deafness and Hearing Loss
Source: KnowledgeShare
Produced by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP); 2021; the resources developed aim to educate GPs and GP trainees on deafness and hearing loss, help reduce variations in accessibility to GP practices and ensure deafness and hearing loss are considered across all aspects of primary care activity including consultations and continued care. The toolkit supports GPs and GP trainees to implement the latest NICE guidelines and NHS Accessibility Quality Standard and guidance across the UK.
To access the toolkit click here.
King’s Fund
Book Club
Bertie’s Book Group Group is a book club that focuses on fiction that touches on health or medical-related theme. The group meets on the third Thursday on every month at The King’s Fund Library; accessible by their website: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/search?search=book+group
The group is currently reading Platform Seven by Louise Doughty
If you would like to get involved simply join the conversation and join Bertie’s Goodreads book group to express your thoughts.
Royal Marsden Manual
New content
Royal Marsden have updated Chapter 15- Medicines Optimisation with new content on “Monoclonal Antibody Preparation and MAB risk assessment”.
Find all the information here or alternatively please click on the link on the homepage.
Remember you can access Royal Marsden Manual with your Open Athens account by signing in here: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/Auth/Login
Library Bulletins
The Gosall Library, February 2021
Read this week’s bulletins on Dementia, Learning Disabilities and Community Health
Improving our Service
Library User Survey
We are continuing striving to provide the best service possible for all our staff and Library users. We would really appreciate it, if you have a spare few minutes to complete our survey;
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TSZNXFP
We value all feedback and hope to make changes for the better based on your recommendations.
We will enter anyone who completed the survey before Sunday 14th February into our prize draw to win a hamper of treats.