Heartbeat: May 2019
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Youth Health Champions have super<br />
sidekick in SWB library service<br />
CORPORATE AND GENERAL<br />
NEWS<br />
St Michael’s students show off one of the board games with Nicola Ager (far left) and Preeti Puligari<br />
(far right)<br />
For a lot of the students at St. Michaels<br />
Church of England High School in<br />
Rowley Regis, the focus of the Easter<br />
holidays may well have been chomping<br />
some chocolate and relaxing. But<br />
for the school's Youth Healthcare<br />
Champions there was much more to<br />
discuss and our colleagues were able to<br />
assist.<br />
Our library and knowledge services<br />
partnered with the 21st Century Child<br />
Coordinator for Sandwell Council, Lydia<br />
Dunn, to deliver a training session to a<br />
group of 16 young people at St Michael’s<br />
High School on how to find the best ways<br />
to search for and source health information.<br />
The session came as part of the student's<br />
work on promoting healthcare matters<br />
for people in their own age groups.<br />
Nicola Ager, Service Development<br />
Librarian and Preeti Puligari, Library and<br />
Knowledge Services Manager were on<br />
hand to give tips and answer questions<br />
for the groups whose projects included<br />
topics such as body image.<br />
Preeti said: “This training has equipped<br />
the school children with the right<br />
knowledge to research reliable health<br />
information and cascade health message<br />
to their peers in the borough. The library<br />
has also bought some educational<br />
board games that these school students<br />
could use to deliver this training in the<br />
community.”<br />
Nicola added: “The students engaged<br />
in the discussions well and were very<br />
receptive to the information we were<br />
giving them. We talked to them about<br />
finding good quality health information<br />
for the topics that they will be delivering<br />
information about to other students."<br />
For further information contact the<br />
library services on 0121 5073587 or<br />
email swbh.library@nhs.net.<br />
Library service takes the reigns on<br />
patient information<br />
A new process is in place for colleagues<br />
who wish to update an existing patient<br />
information leaflet or order a new one.<br />
Requests should go directly to the library<br />
service and the team will then work on<br />
producing the leaflet by liaising directly with<br />
the medical illustration department.<br />
A proof of the leaflet will be sent to the<br />
person who has requested the document<br />
and it will need to go through the approval<br />
process, which includes reviews from<br />
patients.<br />
Nicola Ager, Librarian, said: “We aim to<br />
respond to the initial request between six<br />
to ten working days and once we have<br />
completed checks on the first draft, it will<br />
be sent for design.<br />
“We would encourage departments to<br />
first check resources on Eido which can be<br />
found on Connect under Corporate Systems<br />
and BMJ Best Practice can be found on the<br />
Library and Information page on Connect.<br />
“In particular surgical patient information<br />
leaflets can be found on Eido and<br />
downloaded for free. The BMJ Best Practice<br />
patient information leaflets focus more<br />
on diseases rather than procedures but<br />
can also be downloaded for free (NHS<br />
OpenAthens account required).<br />
“We’d also urge departments to check<br />
the renewal dates on existing leaflets so<br />
that they are not left in a situation where<br />
they are urgently requesting an updated<br />
version after the document has expired.”<br />
If you would like to create or update<br />
a patient leaflet, please email swbh.<br />
library@nhs.net or call ext 3587.<br />
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