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 and to suggest any papers you'd like the club to cover.

• Wednesday 27/5/26, 12-1.30pm. With a controversial World Cup just around the corner, we'll be looking at what football could do instead of lining Gianni Infantino and friends' pockets, with the freely available paper Mental health promotion through soccer in high-risk communities: a narrative review.
• Thursday 18/6/26, 10-11.30am. In the throes of the current heatwave, we'll be covering "Heatwaves End—Heat Exposure Does Not", a short (2-page!) thought-provoking editorial on the hidden mental and physical toll of extreme heat...
• Friday 24/7/26, 2-3.30pm. Something a bit different this meeting, with the French national holiday Bastille Day having just been celebrated: An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology, freely available online from Nature.com, and with an accompanying podcast episode
• Monday 24/8/26, 12-1.30pm. With special guest host Catherine Wardle, our resident health literacy specialist, we'll be covering a paper that was a smash-hit at a recent meeting of our Reflective Reading Club, Discussing Sexual Health During Diabetes Care, a Survey of UK Women—My Diabetes Nurse “Would Fall off Her Chair If I Mentioned It”. It's got quantitative and qualitative aspects, and is a very accessible read!
• Tuesday 29/9/26, 10-11.30am. It's September so that means that the kids are going back to school... but are the kids alright? We'll be covering a paper with a local setting: “I think it is our responsibility, but not solely our responsibility”: A qualitative study exploring teachers’ perspectives on promoting mental health in Northwest London primary schools
• Wednesday 21/10/26, 2-3.30pm. Paper TBC, but we'll be celebrating black history month, so expect something on this theme...

The monthly Occupational Therapy 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