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This site brings together news and information on health promotion work and services in Berkshire
NEWS
This is a 'rolling' news page with the most recent item at the top and older items below for reference.
NHS Email and Text Information for Parents
Launches in May
25 Apr 2012
The Dept. of Health will soon be launching a new information service for new parents, that will deliver 'byte-sized' information directly to parents via email or SMS texts.
It is aimed at new parents, from early pregnancy onwards. It will offer high quality material drawn from NHS Choices, the Pregnancy Care Planner and the Birth to Five guide.
For more information, see the Resource Service News Page - Email & Text Service
Dementia
Training DVD - Looking In
Joint Project - HP Resources and West Berkshire Dementia Care
4 Apr 2012
There is a new training DVD available in the Resources library for health professionals working with people with dementia.
It was produced by Carol Brindley and Sara Johnson of the West Berkshire Dementia Care Services and was a joint project with the Resource Service Graphics Design Department. They helped with much of the filming, editing and graphic design.
It is intended to be used in the training of health workers who will be working with dementia patients and carers, to explain the sort of situations they may encounter. But it is a flexible resource and parts could be used in several different training or discussion settings.
There are also many new dementia resources available from the service. For more details, see the Resource Service News Page - Dementia DVD
New
KS2 Dental Pack Available
9 Mar 2012
The Resource Service has a new KS2 (Key Stage 2) Dental Health resource pack available from their library. It has been put together by the East Berkshire Oral Health Department and compliments the KS1 pack they produced last year.
Content
The pack is conveniently contained in a plastic carry box and includes everything required to run lessons or activities on oral and dental health.
For more information, see the Resource Service News Page - KS2 Pack
Resources Extend Hires Feature Changed
5
Mar 2012
The Resources Service have changed the way the 'Extend Hires' feature works on their on-line catalogue and booking system.
When extending an item, you now select a new return date from a pop-up calendar. This should be easier than the previous system of entering a 'number of days to extend'.
For more information, see the Resource Service News Page - Extend Hires
Baby Care Leaflets in Many Languages
24 Feb 2012
There
is a new website by UNICEF, called The Baby Friendly Initiative. It
provides a wide range of simple baby care leaflets and posters, but the
main feature of this site is that they are available in a huge number of
different languages.
They are available on the site as downloads only, but could prove very useful to people working in our local communities.
For more information, see the Resource Service News Page - Baby Friendly
Vitamin D Update from DoH
17
Feb 2012
There has been a lot of talk about vitamin D recently. Several studies have indicated that it is important in several aspects of health, and that many groups of people are at risk of not getting enough vitamin D.
Updated Information
As a result the Department of Health are now in the process of up-dating and re-printing the "Vitamin D" leaflet they produce.
In the mean time you can read the latest information and guidance on this DoH web page:
For more information, see the Resource Service News Page - VitaminD