Your Health Collection

The Reading Agency has teamed up with Health Education England (HEE) to create ‘Your Health Collection,’ a new collection of books and digital resources to support users of health and prison libraries to understand and manage their health and wellbeing.

The collection of 10 books and 30 digital resources was selected by those working in healthcare, health information and knowledge and library specialists working in the NHS, prisons, public health and Higher Education. The collection will be available in over 300 NHS and prison libraries across England,

The book collection launches today, on Wednesday 6 July, as part of Health Information Week.

Your Health Collection

The ten books included the collection are:

• Preparing for the menopause and perimenopause by Dr Louise Newson
• The Trans Guide to Mental Health and Well-being by Katy Lees
• How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain by Kimberley Wilson
• It’s Not Ok to Feel Blue by Scarlett Curtis
• Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence by Gavin Francis
• Men’s Health: All You Need to Know in One Concise Manual by Jim Pollard
• The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind by Isabel Hardman
• The Book About Getting Older by Dr Lucy Pollock
• Chronic Pain Management: Your two-part plan for understanding pain and finding relief by David Walton
• A Manual for being Human by Dr Sophie Mort

The 30 accompanying digital resources aim to provide information on supporting better general health and living a healthier life. The full list of resources is available via https://library.nhs.uk/yhc/