Health Library News

Click here to access the bulletin. This bulletin is produced by the North Staffordshire NHS Outreach Library and Information Service for Primary Care Trusts in North Staffordshire. It aims to draw attention to some of the key documents and reviews on health inequalities which have been published in the previous two months. Sources covered include: NHS Evidence, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund. Full text links to documents refer to subscriptions accessible to NHS staff in North Staffordshire. To find out more on how to access local online journals please click here.

Click here  to access the bulletin. This bulletin is produced by the North Staffordshire NHS Outreach Library and Information Service for Primary Care Trusts in North Staffordshire. It aims to draw attention to some of the key documents and reviews on clinical effectiveness that have been published in the previous month. Sources covered include NHS Evidence, Bandolier, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund. Full text links to documents refer to subscriptions accessible to NHS staff in North Staffordshire. To find out more on how to access local online journals please click here.

The Cochrane Library and Wiley published journals will be unavailable from 10:00 to 12:00 on 30th October due to maintenance.

Maintenance will be carried out on the Athens system during 2nd November. Please note that there may be delays and reduced accessibility for a short period during the day.

From the Health Management specialist collection – AEU on NHS Service Configuration : “The first part of this update includes material bearing on the general case for reconfiguration: the second on some of the drivers and consequences of reconfiguration and the third contains evidence bearing on the clinical case for change for some individual services where there has been particular pressure to change the ways services are delivered in the expectation that better quality care would be achieved. This update focuses on recent publications.”

The NHS Evidence - health management specialist collection has put together a briefing on today's Spending Review . The briefing includes the main Spending Review documents alongside press coverage and commentary; opinion and analysis; and related research and evidence. This will be continually updated as more analysis and responses come out over the next few weeks.

If you need healthcare evidence while you are on the move you can search NHS Evidence from your mobile . You can find instructions on the NHS Evidence website.

The ethnicity and health specialist collection's Annual Evidence Update is now available. This year's topics include: Breast Cancer Refugee Health Black and Minority Ethnic Carers End of Life Care Childhood Heart Risk Factors

View the latest evidence update on breast cancer from the NHS Evidence – Cancer specialist collection.

You can keep up-to-date with the latest evidence available on the NHS Evidence search engine by signing up to the monthly Eyes on Evidence ebulletin. The September issue reports on obesity management, ventilation protocols and the QIPP collection. Previous issues are available for you to browse.

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin no.271, please click here

To read this Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin please click here

NHS Evidence – Mental Health Collection has launched their latest annual evidence update on depression . Information has been selected from a range of good quality databases. The following topics are included: Epidemiology and Prevalence UK and International Guidelines Neuropsychology Diagnosis and Risk Factors Pharmacological Treatments including: SSRIs, SNRIs and TCAs Psychosocial Treatments including: CBT and CCBT Other Treatments including: Electroconvulsive therapy and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Populations and Settings including: Children and Adolescents, Older People, Women, Ethnicity and the Workplace Genetics Co morbidity Dual Diagnosis

From the NHS Evidence – Cardiovascular specialist collection the latest AEU on heart failure .  Topics include: diagnosis, pharmacology, organisation of care, devices, rehabilitation, palliative care and psychology. There is also a section on uncertainties identified and expert summaries are included to help make sense of the new evidence presented.

The NHS Evidence Search Box has been added to this blog, see the right-hand side-bar. You can now start your information search from here. NHS Evidence searches a number of accredited resources including NICE, Cochrane Database, Map of Medicine and the NHS Evidence specialist collections as well as many more. It can be a good place to start your literature search.