Journal Clubs

Join us in the library or online for our bi-monthly Noclor Journal Club for Nurses and AHPs. In these sessions we'll go over an accessible, interesting paper (or something else...) as a group, discussing its strengths and weaknesses (maybe using a checklists) and what it could mean for your practice. Previous meetings have covered papers like "The role of dog therapy in clinical recovery and improving quality of life: a randomized, controlled trial" and "Zombie apocalypse simulation: elevating mental health nursing education". Call us on 020 7288 3580 or email us at whl@nhs.net to book your place on any of the sessions below.

• Tuesday 16/12/25, 11am-12.30pm. Paper we'll be reading: All I want for Christmas…is a precisely defined research question. Santa runs experiments with his reindeer to see which is better for their flying performance: a bunch of carrots or a mince pie? How will different estimands effect our view of the results?
• Tuesday 13/1/26, 3-4.30pm. As we may well be feeling the effects of the festive season and perhaps going on a health kick or taking part in "Dry January", we'll be reading Temporary abstinence challenges: What do we need to know?
• Wednesday 18/2/26, 2-3.30pm. Because we'll all be sick of the dark evenings, we'll be looking at the evidence behind them via The British Sleep Society position statement on Daylight Saving Time in the UK
• Friday 13/3/26, 2-3pm. In honour of Easter being just round the corner, we'll be reading A bite of dark chocolate? Black humour in mental health services

This quarterly OT Journal Club meets in the library to talk about a recent research paper as selected by Occupational Therapy colleagues working across NLFT. If you would like to take part in these fun, discursive sessions then please contact the facilitator, Assistant Librarian Catherine Wardle: catherinewardle@nhs.net