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As it is National Self Care Week we thought it was the ideal opportunity to remind Trust Staff that they have access to a variety of health and wellbeing books in the library, as well as books for pleasure reading.

“Self Care Week is an annual national awareness week that focuses on embedding support for self care across communities, families and generations.” Remember self care includes NHS staff, who should prioritise their own health and wellbeing. There is also a range of resources available here on the NHS website and self care forum have produced a variety of factsheets for different ailments that can be treated at home.

 All staff are welcome to come, browse and borrow books from this collection. We also welcome donations of fiction books if you are having a clear out at home. Let us know if you can recommend any health and wellbeing books for the library.

 

Here are some of the new books and resources available in the library!

 

 

Remember we accept book recommendations in person, by phone or by email.

November is lung cancer awareness month so we have put together some useful information for healthcare professionals.

Find the guidelines

• NICE: Suspected cancer: recognition and referral (NG12 / June 2015)
• NICE: Lung cancer: diagnosis and management (CG121 / April 2011)
• NICE: Lung cancer in adults (QS17 / March 2012)

SEARCH https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance & http://cks.nice.org.uk

• CKS: Lung and pleural cancers – recognition and referral

 

Recent Publications:

25 by 25 : a ten year strategy to improve lung cancer survival rates

United Kingdom Lung Cancer Coalition (2016)

Behind the headlines

E-cigarettes ‘help thousands successfully quit smoking’

Wednesday 14th September 2016

The actual rise in successful quit attempts was just under 0.1% for each 1% rise in e-cigarette use. The study can’t prove using e-cigarettes is the direct reason for the improved rate of quit attempts as other confounding factors may have been involved.   Attempting to quit with e-cigarettes alone may not be as helpful as attempting to quit using an NHS stop smoking service.

 

Cochrane Reviews

• Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation. Sept 2016

Review Question: Electronic cigarettes (ECs) are electronic devices that produce an aerosol (commonly referred to as vapour) that the user inhales. This vapour typically contains nicotine without most of the toxins smokers inhale with cigarette smoke. ECs have become popular with smokers who want to reduce the risks of smoking. This review aimed to find out whether ECs help smokers stop smoking, and whether it is safe to use ECs to do this. Findings available: HERE

• Interventions for smoking cessation in people diagnosed with lung cancer. Dec 2015

Review question: To determine the effectiveness of smoking cessation programmes for people with lung cancer: lung cancer is the most common cause of death from cancer worldwide. Tobacco smoking constitutes the most important risk factor for lung cancer. Most people with lung cancer are still active smokers at diagnosis or frequently relapse (restart) after smoking cessation. Findings available: HERE

[Image via https://www.asons.co.uk]

Recently Published in the BMJ

make sure you log in with OpenAthens…

“Is there a strategy to improve lung cancer survival?” (26th October 2016)http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i5633/rr

“Late stage lung cancer diagnosis is more likely in younger patients” (13th June 2016)http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i3304

 

“It is now conceivable that our children’s children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars”

Bill Clinton (2000) on the Genome project

Before Autumn creeps into Winter, we thought we would write a little newsletter to keep Trust Staff updated on library happenings…

• This summer we welcomed new member of staff, Ingrid, who is now the Enquiries Desk Librarian on Thursdays and Fridays. So far she is really enjoying being part of  the Library Team here at the Christie. She has also created this blog and is available for one to one training for any staff needing to set up a blog for work or research purposes.
• We launched our new Library Intranet Page, we hope you’re enjoying the eye-catching home page and finding it easier to navigate.
• Mary and Tim represented the Trust at the CILIP Health Libraries Group conference in Scarborough, one of the sessions we delivered focused on the Christie Repository.
• We tweeted lots! Follow us for daily news and research information www.twitter.com/christielibrary
• Our Macmillan Coffee morning was a great success, raising £176.20 for Macmillan Cancer Care!
• We also welcomed lots of lovely new books into the library

We hope you’re enjoying the cosy feeling of Autumn and remember, the library is a lovely place to study 24/7 now it is term time for some of you. We are enjoying all the enquiries from staff going back to learning this Autumn, and developing their research skills.

On a side note, the top image was taken by Mary our Library Manager, in the local Fog Lane Park. Do email us any photography submissions for our ‘Winter Newsletter’ post and we will feature our favourite, just put ‘Library Blog’ as the subject line and send it to library@christie.nhs.uk

Inspired by Jonathan Berry’s blog post on the NHS England website we are here to make our case for health literacy and pledge to host events by our library service as part of Health Information Week 2017.

While our library service is for staff at the Christie, part of this involves supporting the provision of patient information. Jonathan Berry claims that “between 43% and 61% of English working age adults routinely do not understand health information” this may include;

• misunderstanding an important diagnosis
• being confused about instructions for medication
• not understanding medical jargon, for example on hospital signage or during  outpatient appointments or inpatient stays
• not understanding clearly how some conditions (i.e.. diabetes) can be self managed, or prevented through lifestyle factors

As such, low levels of health literacy can cause illness and in turn cost the NHS money which could have been prevented by medical professionals explaining things in plain language,  engaging their patients with information, and directing them to reliable and targeted sources of information elsewhere.

HEALTHCARE LITERACY RESOURCES

So how can we help medical professionals to prevent this, well we have a list of useful resources here:

• The Department of Health provides leaflets and booklets free of charge via their Publications Orderline and there are a colossal range of subjects covered.
• The Change for Life website promotes healthy lifestyle in an accessible and fun way
• Public Health England has a range of Smoking Cessation resources on their website
• Social Media is a powerful communication tool and a way for NHS professionals to help engage with the public and encourage better understanding of health issues. Fab NHS Stuff (an organisation based in the North West) want to change the negative stigma of staff using social media and encourage healthcare professionals to Engage Well, share positive experiences of communication and education with patients on social media and encourage clinician-led communities of patients online.
• The Christie itself also has the Cancer Information Centre situated on the glass corridor on the ground floor, here are many resources along with helpful and knowledgeable  staff who can guide both patients and staff with healthcare information that might help. Full details of the service are available on their page on the Christie website.

 

 

We have put together some current information around breast cancer as it is breast cancer awareness month.

FIND THE GUIDELINES

• NICE: Suspected cancer: recognition and referral (NG12 / June 2015)
• NICE: Familial breast cancer classification, care and managing breast cancer and related risks in people with a family history of breast cancer (CG164/ June 2013):
• NICE: Advanced breast cancer: diagnosis and treatment (CG81 / Feb 2009)
• NICE: Early and locally advanced breast cancer: diagnosis and treatment (CG80 / Feb 2009)

SEARCH https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance

CKS: Breast cancer – recognition and referral

SEARCH: http://cks.nice.org.uk

www.breastcancercare.org.uk

IN THE HEADLINES

What do you do when your patient says “the BBC news says there is no link between breast cancer and night shifts. Is that true, because I remember the newspapers saying that I would get breast cancer if I worked night shifts, so I gave up”

CHECK OUT: www.nhs.uk/News/

LATEST COCHRANE REVIEW

Follow-up strategies for women treated for early breast cancer

Review question: Whether an intensive follow-up decreases the number of recurrences or deaths and affects health-related quality of life (HRQoL) compared with a less intensive follow-up and whether a follow-up offered by specialists is different from that performed by family physicians.

Key results: This review of trials found that follow-up programs based on a regular physical examination and a yearly mammogram appear to be as effective as the more intensive approaches and to have similar impact on HRQoL. No significant differences were found between follow-up performed by specialists or family physicians, regularly or on demand. These results should be interpreted with caution bearing in mind that these studies were conducted almost two decades ago; additional trials incorporating new biological knowledge and improved imaging technologies are needed.

May 2016

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001768.pub3/full

CURRENT AWARENESS

Remember, as a member of Christie Staff you can subscribe to the library’s various current awareness mailing lists.

This will save you time and give you the information specific to your role direct to your email inbox.

You can request regular updates from journals (electronic tables of contents) and regular updates on specific literature searches.

Just email library@christie.nhs.uk with the subject area or journals you would like to get regular updates about, and we can set this up for you, and tailor to your specific research needs. For further details about these services click here.

“Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly
to destroy the reason for its existence”
James Bryce

On 21st October it is wear it pink day  and the whole month of October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

So it seems like a good time to highlight some of the research into breast cancer, conducted by staff at the Christie and published in the last 6 months.

All these links take you to the abstract page on the Christie Repository, and you may need to log in with OpenAthens to download them.

PO-31 – Circulating tumour cells and hypercoagulability: a lethal relationship in metastatic breast cancer.

Breast cancer risk feedback to women in the UK NHS breast screening population.

No strong evidence for increased risk of breast cancer 8-26 years after multiple mammograms in their 30s in females at moderate and high familial risk.

3D modelling identifies novel genetic dependencies associated with breast cancer progression in the isogenic MCF10 model.

Relationship of ZNF423 and CTSO with breast cancer risk in two randomised tamoxifen prevention trials.

A great big thank you to all the staff who got involved in our coffee morning last Friday in aid of Macmillan Cancer Care. So many star bakers took part and we also had some generous eaters and managed to raise an impressive £175.35 which will be going to Macmillan to aid them in their excellent work supporting those affected by cancer.

Following on from our recent blog post about logging into Mark Allen Health we thought it would be good to focus on some of the resources it contains, most of which are focused on Nursing but in particular it contains the British Journal of Healthcare Assistants which is especially useful for HCA’s working at the Christie.

“British Journal of Healthcare Assistants (BJHCA) is the only monthly, peer-reviewed journal to recognise the importance and potential of the million-strong group of healthcare support workers: healthcare assistants (HCAs) and assistant practitioners (APs).”

The journal is a perfect read for HCAs who want to develop their skills and think about their future career. Recent topics include moving patients, building a therapeutic relationship with patients , end of life care and ethics and male specific cancers.

The Mark Allen Health collection also includes subscriptions to Journal of Operation Department Practitioners, International Journal of Palliative Care, British Journal of Hospital Medicine and many more, which can be searched easily if you are looking for resources on a specific topic.

Make sure you log in with OpenAthens, this will enable you to access all of the resources on Mark Allen Health. To set your OpenAthens account up, simply register online here and make sure you use your NHS email account.

Remember: the library staff are on hand if you need a demo of how to access resources or more in depth research training, and you can always email us your enquiry at library@christie.nhs.uk or call us on extension 3452.

We will be hosting a Macmillan Coffee morning in the Christie Library for hospital staff on 30th September, as part of the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning!  All staff are welcome to pop along!

If you feel like baking something to bring along, just let us know. We look forward to seeing staff for a fun morning of coffee, cake and chat.