Health Information Week

Health Information Week is a national, multi-sector campaign promoting high-quality information for patients and the public.

High quality health information can have a huge impact on people’s ability to stay healthy and manage illnesses effectively, giving them a better quality of life. We all need information that we can trust, particularly in this time of coronavirus. We also need to look after our wellbeing, whether our mental health or our physical health. In response to these needs, Health Information Week 2020 runs from 6th to 12th July and focuses on the themes of:

• Finding information you can trust

• Wellbeing

During this week the library will be promoting both themes via the library blog and in the Gosall Library. 

Please read here for general information and useful resources

Health and Wellbeing

Back pain: four ways to fix bad lockdown posture – by copying astronauts

Lockdown could be bad for your back. Thanks to measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, many of us are now working from home. This means you might not be moving around as much, and your home desk setup (and the posture you adopt while working) might not be as good as it should be. These are all things that can lead to back pain.

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The King’s Fund

Bertie’s book group 2020

Join the King’s Fund for their online book group in July when readers will be discussing So lucky by Nicola Griffith. The novel follows Mara Tagarelli who discovers in the space of a week that her wife is leaving her and that she has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The novel is an exploration of identity, disability and ableism.

Leading Through Covid-19 Project

Maintaining motivation in uncertain times

At the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic everyone rose to the challenge; in the health and care sector people did whatever it took to keep their teams and service afloat. Three months later the trajectory of the pandemic remains unclear and people are beginning to realise that we’re in this for the long haul. The future is uncertain, it’s impossible to plan anything, even a holiday. This can be tiring, demotivating, and team morale may suffer.  

Leaders can best support their teams by offering structure and containment, protecting, encouraging, and creating opportunities. 

Read more here

Health Information Week

Health Information Week is a national, multi-sector campaign promoting high-quality information for patients and the public.

High quality health information can have a huge impact on people’s ability to stay healthy and manage illnesses effectively, giving them a better quality of life. We all need information that we can trust, particularly in this time of coronavirus. We also need to look after our wellbeing, whether our mental health or our physical health. In response to these needs, Health Information Week 2020 runs from 6th to 12th July and focuses on the themes of:

• Finding information you can trust

• Wellbeing

During next week the library will be promoting both themes via the library blog and in the Gosall Library. 

Read more here

Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services – Briefing

Evaluating Social Prescribing

This briefing provides a review of the research methods and approaches used to evaluate UK-based social prescribing interventions in recent years, to inform health care and social services professionals, as well as organisations delivering social prescribing interventions and those conducting evaluations of them. It aims to give an overview of how social prescribing has been evaluated, and what can be learned from this.