Library News

During lockdown library staff have been working hard remotely on our online resources.

In addition to creating this blog, to keep up with library news and events you can now find the Health Library at County on several social media channels including:

• Twitter:@CountyHealthLib;
• Facebook; 
• Instagram

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We have also updated our "Current Awareness" pages. This is where you can find headlines from some of the latest issues of our journals along with other useful links to websites by specialty. If you have an OpenAthens password you will be able to read most of the articles listed in full text.

Why not take a look?  https://www.protopage.com/pgmclibrary

If you work at County and your specialty is not listed but you would like a page let us know and we'll see what we can do!

We are also updating the library information on the UHNM webpages, but in the meantime you can access library information for both the Health Library at County and Health Library Royal Stoke here:keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary

We hope to have some of our physical library services back up and running by the end of June and will keep you informed via the above mentioned channels of communication. Until then you can still contact us via email: library@uhnm.nhs.uk with your library related enquiries.

Deaf Awareness Week 4th - 10th May 2020

• An estimated 900,000 people in the UK have severe or profound hearing loss.
• There are 12 million people with hearing loss across the UK, that's around one in six of us.
• There are 50,000 children with hearing loss in the UK. Around half are born with hearing loss while the other half lose their hearing during childhood.

The UK Council on Deafness was first founded in 1993 and is the national umbrella organisation for charities and professional bodies working in the field of deafness. Deaf Awareness Week aims to promote the positive aspects of deafness, promote social inclusion and raise awareness of the huge range of local organisations that support deaf people and their family and friends. The theme of this year's campaign is “acquired deafness”.

For more information surrounding deafness and hearing loss please visit the Deaf Council, Action on Hearing Loss and NHS websites:

UK Council for Deafness

Action on Hearing Loss

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hearing-loss/symptoms/

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting those who have been affected or suffer from deafness or hearing loss, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

BOOKS:

• Ballantyne's Deafness / Graham, J.M.; Ballantyne, John C. (John Chalmers); Graham, J. M. (John Malcolm); Baguley, David (David M.); 2009; 7th ed. [Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell]. This also available as an NHS e-book.

• Hearing aids / Harvey Dillon, 2012; 2nd ed. [Sydney: Boomerang Press]

• Hearing Loss: Causes, Prevention, and Treatment / Jos J. Eggermont, 2017 [London : Elsevier]. NHS e-book accessible via Clinical Key.

• Signals and systems for speech and hearing / Stuart Rosen; Peter Howell, 2011, 2nd ed. [Bingley: Emerald].

JOURNALS:

• American annals of the deaf / Washington, D.C.: Executive Committee of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf [Available  as an NHS ejournal 1997 onwards.]

• The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education / Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press. [Available as an NHS ejournal 1996 with 1 year embargo]

• Hearing Loss: the Journal of Self Help for Hard of Hearing People / Bethesda, MD : Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc. [Available as an NHS ejournal 2009 - 2017]

• Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research /  Rockville, MD : American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. [Available as an NHS ejournal 1997 onwards]

• American Journal of Audiology (AJA) / Rockville, MD: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. [Available as an NHS ejournal 2000 onwards]

• Audiology and Neurotology / Karger. [Available as a NHS ejournal 2005 onwards with 1 year embargo]

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• Ratuszniak, Anna ; Skarzynski, Piotr Henryk ; Gos, Elzbieta ; Skarzynski, Henryk, “The Bonebridge implant in older children and adolescents with mixed or conductive hearing loss: Audiological outcomes”, International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, March 2019, Vol.118, pp.97-102. [Available via NHS ejournals.]

• Ekberg, Katie ; Meyer, Carly ; Hickson, Louise ; Scarinci, Nerina, “Parents’ questions to clinicians within paediatric hearing habilitation appointments for children with hearing impairment”, Patient Education and Counseling, 2020, Vol.103(3), pp.491-499. [Available NHS ejournals.]

• NaseriBooriAbadi, Tahereh ; Sadoughi, Farahnaz ; Sheikhtaheri, Abbas, “Improving Cancer Literacy for the Deaf Using Deaf-Tailored Educational Interventions: a Review of the Literature”, Journal of Cancer Education, 2018, Vol.33(4), pp.737-748. [Available via NHS ejournals.]

• Scheier, Donna B., “Barriers to health care for people with hearing loss: A review of the literature”, Journal of the New York State Nurses Association, Spring/Summer 2009, pp.4 – 10. Article currently available online.

• Southall, Kenneth; Gagné, Jean-Pierre; Jennings, Mary Beth; “Stigma: A negative and a positive influence on help-seeking for adults with acquired hearing loss”, International Journal of Audiology, 2010, Vol.49(11), pp.804-814, DOI: 10.3109/14992027.2010.498447 . [Available via NHS ejournals.]

• E. Sabroske, E.; Svoboda, M.D.; Ng, Y.-T.; “Passing the Newborn Hearing Screen Does Not Always Exclude Acquired Hearing Loss Due to Congenital Infection”, Pediatric Neurology, 2018, June, Vol.83, pp.60-61. [Available via NHS ejournals.]

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:

• NHS website – Hearing Loss 

• NHS Evidence – ‘Hearing Loss’ search results with ‘Information for the public’ filter 

• NHS Evidence  - ‘Deafness’ search results with ‘Information for the public’ filter 

• Action on Hearing Loss

• Factsheet: Living with someone who has gradual hearing loss 

• Patient Info – Hearing Problems 

Coronavirus / Covid-19 resources

Please check our Coronavirus / Covid-19 resources page for resources relating to the coronavirus pandemic. The page includes resources on:

• Public Health - including resources for children
• Shared Practice
• Topic Summaries
• Rapid Reviews and Guidelines
• Nursing Support
• Medical Research
• Literature Searching
• Training
• Statistics
• Other Library Collections

We have also now started to produce a Covid-19 evidence bulletin containing the latest research and articles being published.

Need to rest your mind - try some mindfulness colouring

 ... or maybe just keep the kids occupied for a short time. Follow the links below to some colouring exercises to have a go at.


NHS Million Poster Project- NHS Million have some posters that you can download and colour in. They have been created by volunteer artists. Lots are on the theme of thanking the NHS, so perfect for decorating the wards or sharing in your window. NHS Million are also encouraging you to share your creations via social media.


Blue Light Card Character Posters - Blue Light Card have some colouring posters of various emergency service staff. Good for using with younger children and educational too.