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Health Information Week is a national, multi-sector campaign to promote high quality health information. This year, it will take place from 20 - 26 January 2025.

The themes for 2025 are:

Winter health
Mental health
Wellbeing
Health literacy and misinformation
Digital literacy

At Epsom and St Helier we are celebrating the week in the following ways:


Winter health Support the Trust's efforts to drive up flu and COVID-19 vaccinations. Check out the information on Victor and book your vaccinations as soon as possible!
Mental health Use your OpenAthens account to access MAG online Mental Health Collection.
Wellbeing Sign up to Borrow Box and see our collection of self help audio and eBooks. Pop into either hospital library and pick up a free sprout pencil.
Health literacy and misinformation Book an online session with Liz, our Knowledge Specialist, to grasp the significance of health literacy.
Digital literacy Join Rosy, our Library Learning Technologist online at the Digital Champions session on Friday 24 January from 10am-11am to find out more about the training sessions she provides.

Celebrate Black History Month

Thank you to everyone for helping the library to celebrate Black History Month.

Watch this space for news about the winners of our competition and a recording of the very talented Léonie Lindo (a self-taught realist painter) who was commissioned to create an image entitled “Honouring Motions to Stand” to represent this year’s theme.

This year we are celebrating Black History Month in a number of ways:

Summaries of Black Britons

This year’s theme for Black History Month is “Reclaiming Narratives”, which is all about correcting and recognising the narratives of black culture and its history. Celebrate Black History Month with the Library Team. Read the short summaries of seven Black Britons chosen by Layla Atkinson (Year 11) from Royal Alexandra and Albert School during her work experience week in June 2024 with the library team.

Black History Month competition and Meet the Artist Event

Black History Month Artist painting

“Honouring Motions to Stand” created by Léonie Lindo

Léonie Lindo (a self-taught realist painter) was commissioned to create an image entitled “Honouring Motions to Stand” to represent this year’s theme. Enter our competition to win a framed A4 sized, signed print of the image.

The competition is to read one of the books from our BorrowBox Black Heritage Month collection themed books and write a short summary (no longer than 250 words) about the book.

The four best summaries which will be judged by an external panel will be awarded a framed, signed A4 print of “Honouring Motions to Stand”. Submit your summaries via the MS Form or email them to the library team at: esth.hirsonlibrary@nhs.net by Saturday 30 November 2024.

Léonie will also be joining us for a “Meet the Artist” event to discuss how she developed the artwork to match the theme on Friday 1 November from 2pm to 3pm via MS Teams. Register your interest to attend via this form.

BorrowBox event:

Thursday 17 October 1 – 3pm St Helier restaurant

Meet Poppy Jackson (Sales Manager) from Bolinda on Thursday 17 October 1 – 3pm St Helier restaurant. Find out from Poppy and the Library Team how you can access hundreds of FREE Bestselling eAudiobooks, eBooks and eMagazines through BorrowBox.

All you need to access BorrowBox is to be a member of the library.

Follow the Twitter/X Black History Month action

ESTH Twitter for BHM 2024 image

Follow us on Twitter via the hashtag #ESTHBHM2024. Layla Atkinson during her work experience week selected 31 books from our BorrowBox Black Heritage Month collection to be Tweeted on a daily basis throughout October.

Credits for the images used for the summaries of Black Britons

Stormzy:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-61887653

Jason Arday:
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/portrait-of-a/jason-arday-on-racial-m_6kAtKTQZb/#google_vignette

Michaela Coel:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3948190/

Lavinya Stennett: Courtesy
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/a35740129/lavinya-stennett-prioritising-oneself-self-care/

Little Simz:
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/little-simz-wearing-your-heart-on-your-sleeve-doesnt-make-you-weak-k2hwg65rf

Marcus Rashford:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/marcus-rashford-defends-charity-deals-against-claims-he-profits-from-campaigning-3lmj6wf0q

Khadija Owusu:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/khadijaowusu_iwd2023-march-support-activity-7036637043245883393-Iu6z