Health Library News

Sunday 3rd August is our first day of Sunday opening. The Health Library and attached IT suite will be accessible between 1pm to 5pm. Only a basic service will be offered. If you have any complex queries or problems, please contact the Library Monday through to Saturday, when professional staff will be available.

Members of the Health Faculty will be pleased to know that the subscription to Anatomy.TV will be retained for at least the next year. Anatomy.TV is an online 3D interactive anatomy model with study guide, self testing and specialist sections. This package is available to holders of Keele Athens accounts only.

Any Keele students or staff using the Ebsco health care databases may notice some changes! The screen has a cleaner fresher look, quick hover over display of article abstracts, share your results via Facebook, MySpace, Del.icio.us etc, choose your favourite citation styles to display (unfortunately Harvard isn't in there), quickly add related reference to your saved folder (now more visible and easier to manage) and much, much more. We will be updating our training materials, so why not come along to one of our Wednesday afternoon training sessions or ask at the help desk for a guided tour. For further information please contact Mariet Schepers on (01782) 556583.

Dialog Datastar will no longer be available after 31 July 2008. THIS MEANS THAT ALL SAVED SEARCHES ON DIALOG WILL NEED TO BE MOVED TO ANOTHER LOCATION BEFORE THE END OF JULY OR THEY WILL BE LOST. If you need an update training session on the new Search 2.0 interface from the National Library for Health, please book online through the Health Library website for our library based time-tabled sessions, or contact our training team to arrange one-to-one or departmental training on (01782) 556583. Specialist assistance is available for those based primary care or combined health via the outreach service . Please contact Susan Smith (E-Resource Librarian) direct by emailing s.w.smith@lib.keele.ac.uk or by phone (01782) 556581 if you have any further queries or problems relating to the new search interface.

This months has seen the publication of Next Stage Review - High Quality Care For All. This entry will gather together the main documents and a selection of the coverage. The coverage includes a number of good summaries. There were three main documents published at this point - 1) High quality care for all : NHS Next Stage Review final report (30th June 2008) Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham KBE The final report of Lord Darzi's NHS Next Stage Review. It responds to the 10 SHA strategic visions and sets out a vision for an NHS with quality at its heart. This link includes the full document and a summary version. For a very brief summary Darzi review: At-a-glance BBC or Main points of the Darzi report FT. 2) The National Health Service Constitution - a consultation paper (30th June 2008) The proposed NHS Constitution published today, marking 60 years of the NHS , is about safeguarding its core principles and values for the next generation, whilst setting a clear direction for t...

This week is the 60th Anniversary of the National Health Service. To celebrate this achievement, the University Hospital of North Staffordshire is opening up a selection of departments for public access on Saturday 5th July, including the Clinical Education Centre. For further information on the history of the NHS the Health Service Journal have collated a special supplement in celebration - copy available in the Health Library. Additional informationcan be found on the NHS Scotland website or the NHS Choices with interactive timeline, photo gallery and forthcoming events.