HEA Health and Social Care conference 2016- an information specialists' view!

Claire Beecroft

Helen Buckley-Woods

Information Resources' Claire Beecroft attended and presented at the HEA's Health and Social Care conference 2016 with fellow IR Information Specialist Helen Buckley Woods. In this video post Claire talks about her session and day 2 of the conference.





HEA Health And Social Care Conference Report from Claire Beecroft on Vimeo.

Three free ebooks

        

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Free downloads of three ebooks are available from The James Lind Library.  The titles are:

• Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare by Imogen Evans, Hazel Thornton & Iain Chalmers
• Smart Health Choices: Making Sense of Health Advice by Professor Les Irwig, Judy Irwig, Dr Lyndal Trevena, Melissa Sweet
• Know Your Chances: How to see through in medical news, ads, and public service announcements by Steven Woloshin, Lisa M. Schwartz, and H. Gilbert Welch

Please see http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/testing-treatments.html for further details.

Health Services Research Programme Seminars

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6th October

Patient and public involvement in health research design: A review of the evidence.

Dr Jonathan Boote, Research Fellow, Research Design Service for Yorkshire and Humber, ScHARR, University of Sheffield

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13th October

Talking to machines: Speech technology in rehabilitation, health and social care.

Professor Mark Hawley, Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Research Group, Health Services Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.

20th October

The relationship between Research Design Services and Clinical Trials Units with examples from our own experience.

Professor Elaine McColl, Director of Newcastle CTU, University of Newcastle.

27th October

Half Term – No Seminar.

3rd November

Recruitment projections and Lasagna's Law: Literature review and qualitative research.

Daniel Hind, Research Fellow, Clinical Trials, Research Unit, HSR, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.

10th November

Rethinking informed consent: Why do patients enter clinical trials?

Dr Clare Relton, Honorary Research Fellow, Public Health, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.

17th November

Watching them grow and knowing you have done that: A qualitative study of well- being and allotment gardening.

Professor Nigel King, University of Huddersfield

24th November

Pilot studies and feasibility studies: Their definitions and uses in practice and policy.

Dr Cindy Cooper, Senior Research Fellow, Clinical Trials Unit, HSR, ScHARR, University of Sheffield.

1st December

Improving care for older people who fall: A programme of research in emergency care.

Professor Helen Snooks, Professor of Health Services Research, Centre for Health Information Research and Evaluation, Institute of Life Science, School of Medicine, Swansea University.

All the seminars will be held on Tuesday lunchtimes, in the Lecture Rooms 1&2 on the First Floor of ScHARR at Regent Court (Regent Street entrance) at 12.30pm. Coffee will be provided and you are welcome to bring your own sandwiches. All staff and students welcome

Seminars organised by Annette Haywood, ScHARR

( For further information please contact Joanne Turner on 0114 222 0751 or e-mail j.e.turner@sheffield.ac.uk

Health Care Overhaul (Summarized Via Massive Pig)

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Here's an interesting take on The U.S health care reforms.

Past and future of the NHS: King's Fund briefing

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The King's Fund has published 'In the beginning: determinants of health'. This briefing looks at the early years of the NHS and the challenges it faced, from long waiting lists to shortages of staff. It also looks forward to what the next 60 years might hold for the NHS. It is based on a series of data briefings published in the Health Service Journal between January and July 2008. http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/briefings/in_the_beginning.html

National Library for Public Health Medicine

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The National Library for Health has re-launched the National Library for Public Health Medicine (NLPH).

This is an online specialist library which replaces the Public Health electronic Library (PHeL). The library has been developed to provide high quality evidence e-based information on all aspects of public health. There are sections on the Choosing Health priority areas of obesity, mental health, sexual health, health inequalities, tobacco, children and young people and alcohol.

http://www.library.nhs.uk/publichealth/

Health Survey for England 2006

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The Information Centre has published 'Health Survey for England 2006:CVD and risk factors adults, obesity and risk factors children'.

For adults, the 2006 report focused on cardiovascular disease and risk factors, which covered behavioural risks such as physical activity,smoking, alcohol consumption, fruit and vegetable consumption and fatintake as well as health status risk factors including general health, blood pressure, diabetes and anthropometric measurements.

The report on children covers physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption,smoking, alcohol consumption, and anthropometric measurements.

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NHS Choices website Update

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The Department of Health has announced an update of the NHS Choices website.

NHS Choices has new features, expanded content, and significantly enhanced navigation. The service is designed to help people make the most of their own health and get the best out of the UK’s healthcare system. People using the site can find good quality information about medical conditions, treatments, advice on healthy living, and comparative data on hospitals.

NHS Choices is a long-term project, which will continue to evolve over the next 18 months with new features and content added via a series of planned new releases. The new service is flexible and will continually improve and adapt in response to feedback from those in and outside, of the NHS.

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Bulletins/nhschoicesbulletin/index.htm

Take Five September

Take Five September 2007 is out now.

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Take Five is the Trent RDSU’s monthly update, packed floor-to-ceiling with training events, research funding and the latest health news.

To join the Take Five distribution list please contact me, Anna Wilkinson on 0114 2220894 or by email a.j.wilkinson@sheffield.ac.uk

Latest Health Events

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The following health events are due to take place this week

Alzheimer's Awareness Week (1-7 July 2007)

National Metabolic Disease Awareness Week (1-8 July 2007)

Recommended Website of the Day

The Centre for Evidence Based Practice

This resouces contains Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice, which was originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The CHE continues to maintain the full text pre-publication version of this series on behalf of the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group