First Aid for Cyclists app ★★★★★
The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio PICK OF THE WEEK
Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimised for iPhone 5 and available from the iTunes App Store. The Android app is available on Google Play. Free. tinyurl.com/ohhwn3m
Steph Caldwell is a recently qualified nurse in Manchester
Find more online Book club discounts
We have teamed up with Jones & Bartlett Learning, Pearson and the Open University Press to offer a 20 per cent discount to readers: http://rcnpublishing. com/page/ns/offers/book-club
Read reviews online
The Nursing Standard website has an online archive of book reviews: http://rcnpublishing.com/page/ns/ resources/book-reviews
NURSING STANDARD
BBC
This new, free app from St John Ambulance gives cyclists the skills to deal with the most common cycling injuries. With three million people in the UK cycling three times a week or more, the number of casualties is rising, particularly the number of cyclists who need first aid after an accident. Cyclists invariably come to the aid of other cyclists in trouble, more so than motorists or pedestrians. St John Ambulance hopes that its app will help to equip the world’s largest cycling community with first aid skills. The app is packed with concise first aid advice from clinicians, first aiders and London’s Cycle Response Unit, whose paramedics use adapted mountain bikes to be the first on scene at accidents. The homescreen features links to emergency, facial or head injuries, bones and muscles, and bleeding, cuts and grazes. There are also tips on how to turn cycling equipment into first aid instruments.
HORIZON: SHOULD I EAT MEAT? – THE BIG HEALTH DILEMMA
Monday August 18, BBC 2, 9-10pm Every year, we raise and eat 65 billion animals – nine animals for every person on the globe. As part of this week’s thread of programmes on BBC 2 focusing on meat, Michael Mosley (pictured) looks at chicken, pork, beef and barbecue favourites such as sausages and burgers. He also checks out processed meat and asks is it really so bad for us? And how will he cope with a diet high in meat, eating beef and bacon every day?
MONDAY AUGUST 18
Dispatches – Are You Addicted to Your Doctor? Channel 4, 8-8.30pm The team check on the worried well overusing our health system. They include an anxious woman who calls emergency services on a regular basis and those who queue at A&E with minor ailments. Is charging for NHS services the answer?
Horizon: Should I Eat Meat? – The Big Health Dilemma BBC 2, 9-10pm See Pick of the Week TUESDAY AUGUST 19
Inside Health – Conflicted Medicine Radio 4, 9-9.30pm Mark Porter continues his series looking at the hidden influences driving doctors. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 20
Emergency Bikers Channel 5, 7-8pm The biker paramedics race to assist a patient having a suspected heart attack and search for two riders who have fallen from their horses.
Secrets from the Asylum ITV 1, 9-10pm The last of the Victorian asylums closed for good in the 1980s. In the first of
two programmes, Ray Winstone, Claire Sweeney and Al Murray find out how these institutions shaped the lives of their families – and uncover long-buried secrets.
Horizon: Should I Eat Meat? – How to Feed the Planet BBC 2, 9-10pm Following on from Monday’s programme, Michael Mosley looks at the impact of meat production on the planet. THURSDAY AUGUST 21
Tonight: The Food We Eat – Superfoods ITV 1, 7.30-8pm More than 60 per cent of us buy expensive health foods on a regular basis. But are they a waste of money?
Britain’s Compulsive Shoppers BBC 1, 8-8.30pm Jasmine Harman turns her attention to the destructive and often secretive condition of compulsive shopping.
Kids with Cameras – Diary of a Children’s Ward ITV 1, 9-10pm In the last of the series where inpatients at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle record their experiences on camera, we meet 13-year-old Keir, who has cystic fibrosis. Compiled by nurse Margaret Paul
august 13 :: vol 28 no 50 :: 2014 33 Nursing Standard 2014.28:33-33. Downloaded from journals.rcni.com by National University of Singapore on 11/22/15. For personal use only.
The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio PICK OF THE WEEK
Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimised for iPhone 5 and available from the iTunes App Store. The Android app is available on Google Play. Free. tinyurl.com/ohhwn3m
Steph Caldwell is a recently qualified nurse in Manchester
Find more online Book club discounts
We have teamed up with Jones & Bartlett Learning, Pearson and the Open University Press to offer a 20 per cent discount to readers: http://rcnpublishing. com/page/ns/offers/book-club
Read reviews online
The Nursing Standard website has an online archive of book reviews: http://rcnpublishing.com/page/ns/ resources/book-reviews
NURSING STANDARD
BBC
This new, free app from St John Ambulance gives cyclists the skills to deal with the most common cycling injuries. With three million people in the UK cycling three times a week or more, the number of casualties is rising, particularly the number of cyclists who need first aid after an accident. Cyclists invariably come to the aid of other cyclists in trouble, more so than motorists or pedestrians. St John Ambulance hopes that its app will help to equip the world’s largest cycling community with first aid skills. The app is packed with concise first aid advice from clinicians, first aiders and London’s Cycle Response Unit, whose paramedics use adapted mountain bikes to be the first on scene at accidents. The homescreen features links to emergency, facial or head injuries, bones and muscles, and bleeding, cuts and grazes. There are also tips on how to turn cycling equipment into first aid instruments.
HORIZON: SHOULD I EAT MEAT? – THE BIG HEALTH DILEMMA
Monday August 18, BBC 2, 9-10pm Every year, we raise and eat 65 billion animals – nine animals for every person on the globe. As part of this week’s thread of programmes on BBC 2 focusing on meat, Michael Mosley (pictured) looks at chicken, pork, beef and barbecue favourites such as sausages and burgers. He also checks out processed meat and asks is it really so bad for us? And how will he cope with a diet high in meat, eating beef and bacon every day?
MONDAY AUGUST 18
Dispatches – Are You Addicted to Your Doctor? Channel 4, 8-8.30pm The team check on the worried well overusing our health system. They include an anxious woman who calls emergency services on a regular basis and those who queue at A&E with minor ailments. Is charging for NHS services the answer?
Horizon: Should I Eat Meat? – The Big Health Dilemma BBC 2, 9-10pm See Pick of the Week TUESDAY AUGUST 19
Inside Health – Conflicted Medicine Radio 4, 9-9.30pm Mark Porter continues his series looking at the hidden influences driving doctors. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 20
Emergency Bikers Channel 5, 7-8pm The biker paramedics race to assist a patient having a suspected heart attack and search for two riders who have fallen from their horses.
Secrets from the Asylum ITV 1, 9-10pm The last of the Victorian asylums closed for good in the 1980s. In the first of
two programmes, Ray Winstone, Claire Sweeney and Al Murray find out how these institutions shaped the lives of their families – and uncover long-buried secrets.
Horizon: Should I Eat Meat? – How to Feed the Planet BBC 2, 9-10pm Following on from Monday’s programme, Michael Mosley looks at the impact of meat production on the planet. THURSDAY AUGUST 21
Tonight: The Food We Eat – Superfoods ITV 1, 7.30-8pm More than 60 per cent of us buy expensive health foods on a regular basis. But are they a waste of money?
Britain’s Compulsive Shoppers BBC 1, 8-8.30pm Jasmine Harman turns her attention to the destructive and often secretive condition of compulsive shopping.
Kids with Cameras – Diary of a Children’s Ward ITV 1, 9-10pm In the last of the series where inpatients at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle record their experiences on camera, we meet 13-year-old Keir, who has cystic fibrosis. Compiled by nurse Margaret Paul
august 13 :: vol 28 no 50 :: 2014 33 Nursing Standard 2014.28:33-33. Downloaded from journals.rcni.com by National University of Singapore on 11/22/15. For personal use only.
