Stack of paper pages. Top page reads: Toast water Take 1 slice bread Toast it as crisply as possible without burning Put in a jug and pour over it 1 pint of cold spring water Let is stand ½ hour Strain Serve plan or add the juice of a lemon

Latest collection discovery, hidden in a book are a bundle of medical and culinary recipes. Including recipes for raw beef tea, orange jelly and one for 'soothing nourishment in consumption'.

One of the least appealing is 'toast water' which is, you guessed it, toast that has been put in water.

A grey squirrel sitting in a gutter at the top of a yellow building, next to a grey slate roof.

The same grey squirrel running down the side of a yellow building.

We just spotted this little friend chilling on the roof of our library at Prospect House - wonder if he's running towards the weekend the same way our library staff are?

Pictures of 8 books: 1. The book thief by Markus Zusak 2. The Eights by Joanna Miller 3. In Memoriam by Alice Winn 4. The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth 5. A Man called Otto by Fredrik Backman 6. Mrs England by Stacey Halls 7. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 8. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

Our Library Staff are sharing their current favourites with each other today

How are you celebrating World Book Day?

#WorldBookDay #NationalYearOfReading #Libraries #BookSky

For the 22nd the library team has chosen a feel-good read: The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan.

📚 #NHS #Library #bookcountdown 📚

Our book count down continues today with Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.

📚 #NHS #Library #bookcountdown 📚

On the 5th day of Christmas my true love gave to me ... another collection of scary stories! The libraries choice today is The Mistletoe Bride by Kate Mosse.

📚 #NHS #Library #bookcountdown

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats is today’s choice. Enjoy a tale of snowy exploration this winter.

📚 #NHS #Library #bookcountdown 📚

From scary stories to the magical, this time we’re recommending a retelling of the nutcracker Midnight in Everwood by M.A. Kuzniar.

📚 #NHS #Library #bookcountdown 📚

A Christmas haunting has been a part of winter traditions for centuries, so our 3rd book is The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights!

📚 #Library #NHS #bookcountdown

9 days til Christmas! And our choice for today is A Winter Book: Selected of Stories by Tove Jansson.

📚 #Library #NHS #bookcountdown #Christmas

A Literary Christmas: An Anthology - The British Library

It's 10 days til Christmas! The Library team is starting our count down by recommending a book each day till Christmas!

Follow us over the next several days for our favourite festive reads!

First up is A Literary Christmas: An Anthology compiled by the British Library

📚 #Library #NHS

The team is all set up and ready for the CDDFT AGM

Coming up to festive season is the perfect time to find some peace in the chaos.
We have books for that!
Whether it's crafting, baking or a Christmas read to lift your spirits we can help you find your calm this Winter.

Details In this session, our expert speakers will guide you through leveraging BMJ Best Practice to deliver outstanding, evidence-based care for patients with heart failure and gain practical insights to improve management and patient outcomes. Learning Outcomes: - Challenges in implementing evidence-based medicine in the management of heart failure - Managing comorbidities in patients with heart failure - The role of patient information - Common pitfalls in management and how to overcome them Who Should Attend? This webinar is ideal for healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and medical students, who care for patients with heart failure.

Join us on Teams on the 19th November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 to see how BMJ Best Practice can help with providing state-of-the-art care for patients with Heart Failure.

Register now!

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#NHS #Library #BMJBestPractice

The Library Team are at Cheter-Le-Street Hospital today! Come and talk to Sarah and Reece about KnowledgeShare which aims to keep you up to date with the latest in your field(s) and see how else we can support you at work.

It's World Mental Health Day

Take the time to check in on your loved ones and show support for each other. We have a variety of resources across both sites to support you. Drop in today to speak to our staff

www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/pub...

#cddftlibrary #CDDFT #Mentalhealth

A crocheted healthcare worker, wearing pale blue scrubs, a surgical cap, and a surgical mask. He or she is on a table with some business cards for our CDDFT librarians, and a leaflet on the Fiction Prescription, our excellent remote book group.

Some forms and flyers on a table, including a red flyer for KnowledgeShare, an excellent new library resource that helps you keep up with your CPD, and a form to fill in to become a member of KnowledgeShare.

A wider view of the display table. On top of a black tablecloth are our crocheted library mascot and a number of flyers and posters for our library services.

Based at the Richardson Hospital? Come and have a chat to Claire and Mike who are visiting today! They can give you info on our excellent new resource KnowledgeShare, talk to you about how the library can support you at work, or otherwise just let you admire our adorable crocheted mascot 😊

Described as a page-turning story of unforgettable characters: The Satsuma Complex is here.
Pick up our latest book club choice and join the fun!
Limited books available from DMH library, get in touch to reserve your copy!
#thefictionprescription #bookclub #thesatsumacomplex

Thanks to all who donated, attended and baked for our McMillan coffee morning we raised over £120!
What a sweet result! Thanks to all the team for sharing the event and making it a success.

Hello,

We are currently promoting the library over at UHND! Come & have a chat and see how we can support your best practice!

We are outside of Saffrey until 13:30.

#NHS #Library

Today we celebrate our amazing book club & all it's members! Thank you for supporting us in the last year & here's to another year of fantastic reads!
📚 #BookClubDayUK #NHS #Library 📚

It was a lovely surprise today to receive this book written by Dr Keith Pappachen Mathew, a GP Registrar who was recently a Clinical Fellow at DMH. The book title: "Doctorship in the UK" navigating the Do's and Don't's of becoming a specialty Doctor.
Thank you!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/9360066931

Atmosphere: A Love story by Taylor Jenkins Reed. Book Cover

'To look at the night sky is to look at parts of who you once were, who you may one day be'. Thrilling ... heartbreaking ... uplifting ... Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel Atmosphere is the fast-paced, emotionally charged story of one ambitious young woman, finding both her voice and her passion, as she fights to become one of the first female NASA astronauts in the 1980s. You'll barrel through this electric novel, rooting for the women to not only succeed in the space program but to soar. A pitch-perfect ending ... I loved it. Back cover quote provided by Kristin Hannah, author of The Women

📚 This months pick is a spellbinding tale by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Her book, Atmosphere, is love story in all senses of the phrase.
#cddft #bookofthemonth #library

Our book club choice for The Fiction Prescription this month is the courageous and inspiring autobiography of Rob Burrow.
If you'd like a copy reserving do let us know:
cdda-tr.dmhlibrary@nhs.net or cdda-tr.uhndlibrary@nhs.net

For something a little different why not check out our Book of Month 'Cox's Navy: Salvaging the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow, 1924–1931' by Tony Booth.

A captivating true story of human ingenuity and innovation.

Our CDDFT Book Club The Fiction Prescription celebrates it's 1st birthday in September!
170 members are now part of the group!
Recently the Chairman came to offer his support and some cake was enjoyed too!
We are grateful to all of our CDDFT colleagues helping make it a success!
#cddft #libraries

Thanks to Morrisons North Road for giving us some cakes and scones for our Big Tea event last week!

Poster advertising the NHS Big Tea: raise a mug for a great cause.

Biscuits and cakes spread out on a table next to a window.

Good morning all! If you're around Prospect House this morning, feel free to join us for our NHS Big Tea Coffee Morning to help raise funds for our brilliant CDDFT Charity. 10am-12pm in the library coffee area. The more the merrier ☕🍪🧁

A new poem for the profession Poet Rishi Dastidar has created a new poem to celebrate the profession, exclsuively for CILIP

"Breathing search engines, we dissect the quest."

We love this poem, 'The Way, The Deep', written by Rishi Dastidar, celebrating the library and information professions and launched at this week's @cilip.bsky.social conference. You can read the full poem here: www.cilip.org.uk/news/704751/...

Image of the book cover of The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Cover image consists of a close up of the face of a Greek statue.

Introducing our Book of the Month: 'The Secret History by Donna Tartt'📚 #library #NHS #bookofthemonth

A coming-of-age story that is both Greek tragedy and dark academia;

"Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming".