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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.

If you are planning to visit the Health Library over the Christmas period please be aware of our reduced opening hours . Remember that you can still access all our online resources - see the Quick Links on the Health Library home page.

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Bulletin no.279, please click here

To read the Mental health and social care bulletin no.278 13th December, please click here

The Annual Evidence Update on Headache is now available from the Neurological Conditions Specialist Collection website . The project team has carried out a systematic literature search on Headache to identify all high level evidence published since the date of the last Headache AEU in 2009, including guidelines, systematic reviews, health technology assessments and economic evaluations. Leading headache experts from around the UK have read and appraised these for their validity and relevance to the busy clinician. A list of the papers deemed worthy of inclusion, along with expert commentaries by our reviewers, is freely available on the site .

The University has recently purchased a number of ebooks to help students with their revision: Akunjee, N.  (2009). The easy guide to OSCEs for final year medical students  Mann, I.  (2009).  The finalist’s guide to passing the OSCE   Patel, K. (2006).  Complete revision notes for medical finals   Sritharan, (2007).  Essential OSCE topics for medical and surgical finals   We have also purchased Bottomley & Rymer’s 100 Clinical cases in obstetrics and gynaecology (2008) 100 Clinical cases in obstetrics and gynaecology   You will need your Athens username and password in order to access any ebook.

Please note that the Keele University Campus Library will have extended opening hours during the exam period in January next year. Check their opening hours web page for more details.

The Current Awareness pages on the website have been updated to include a number of links to health-related news sources. These include general news and RSS feeds as well as major sources for bulletins. New help links have been added to the Alerts & Zetoc page to help you set up your own alerts against NHS Evidence Healthcare Databases Advanced Search (HDAS) or the Zetoc database.

If you are planning to visit the Health Library over the Christmas period please be aware of our reduced opening hours . Remember that you can still access all our online resources - see the Quick Links on the Health Library home page.

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Bulletin no. 277 6th December 2010 please click here

You can view the latest new items that have been added to the library catalogue during November, including: The NHS handbook 2010/11 / Peter Davies Atlas of clinical neurology / editor, Roger N. Rosenberg Oxford handbook of learning and intellectual disability nursing / edited by Bob Gates and Owen Barr Handbook of diabetes / Rudy Bilous, Richard Donnelly 2010 resuscitation guidelines / edited by Jerry P. Nolan Nursing care plans: guidelines for individualizing client care across the lifespan/ by Marilynn E. Doenges, Mary Frances Moorhouse, Alice C. Murr And many more.

The kidney diseases and male urogenital disorders specialist collection has published the latest AEU on Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders in Renal Transplant patients . This review includes systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and cohort studies, and assesses the impact of new evidence since the introduction of the BSH/BTS guidelines for the diagnosis and management of PTLD.

The Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Specialist Collection has published its second AEU on Alcoholic Liver Disease . This includes guidelines, systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials, health technology assessments and economic evaluations.

Eduserv will be carrying out maintenance on the Athens services during Tuesday 7th December. Users are advised that they may experience slight delays when using the service or the service may be unavailable for short periods. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

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.