Prevention in an ageing world

A window of opportunity

International Longevity Centre UK (ILC UK), April 7 2022

This report brings together ILC UK’s two-year global engagement programme on how to deliver prevention in an ageing world. It argues that while Covid has increased and exacerbated inequalities, it has also shown us how fast governments can act. There is a window of opportunity to build on the learnings from the pandemic. But governments need to act now.

BMJ Best Practice

Funded by Health Education England, free to all NHS staff and learners

BMJ Best Practice uses the latest evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.

Click here and enter your OpenAthens username and password to sign in. If you are a new user, you will need to register for a BMJ Best Practice personal account.

You can use your personal account to download the free BMJ Best Practice app for access anywhere, anytime, even offline.

Eating Disorders

Advice for eating out with calorie labelling

From April 2022, new laws in England will mean many businesses that serve food will have to put information about calorie content on their menus. Many people with eating disorders will find this makes an already challenging situation harder.

Read this guidance from BEAT for support.

Podcast

Bookshelfie: Gabby Logan

Source: Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast

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

Join this season’s new host Vick Hope as she talks to Gabby Logan MBE, sports presenter and former gymnast, about the three M’s – midlife, motherhood and her MBE. 

Gabby is a broadcaster, prolific writer, podcaster and former gymnast. She became a familiar face on our TV screens in the 1990s, and since then has presented every major sporting event in the UK. In 2020 she received an MBE for services to sports broadcasting and the promotion of women in sport. Gabby tells us about the loves and losses in her life, through the books by women that have influenced her.

Library Newsletter

April 2022

The April edition of the Library Newsletter is now available to view here.

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