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To read the Mental Health and Social Care Bulletin please click here

The latest AEU on Multiple Sclerosis has been published by the NHS Evidence – Neurological specialist collection . Here you can find the latest reviewed and appraised guidelines, systematic reviews, health technology assessments and economic evaluations.

The AEU on Chest Pain , published by the NHS Evidence – Cardiovascular specialist collection , is linked to the recently published NICE guideline .

The 5th Annual Evidence Update (AEU) on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is published by the NHS Evidence Gastroenterology and Liver Disease specialist collection   Here you can find expert commentary along with a selection of critically appraised, recently published research.

The dates for the April to June training scheduled have now been released. You can browse online   or pick up a leaflet in the Health Library. Extra dates have been added to the popular full-day Finding the Evidence course. Don’t forget that you can book online or contact the Training & Support Librarians for more information.

NHS Evidence have reported that they are currently experiencing technical problems which is affecting journal links within the My Journals list and databases results. See the NHS Evidence HIR homepage for more details.

NHS Evidence will be carrying out maintenance on their website this evening (15/03/2011) between 8pm and midnight. Users may experience some disruption to the site. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

From the NHS Evidence Specialist Collection – Eyes and Vision , the 2011 AEU on Retinal Vein Occlusion looks at the latest research published since 2010, focusing on the Management of Retinal Vein Occlusions.

The latest research on hearing disorders has been selected and reviewed by the NHS Specialist Collection for ENT , and published as the 2011 annual evidence update .

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.

UHNS Athens users can now access BMJ Case Reports. As well as access to the full-text, users can also submit their own reports. Please see the BMJ Case Reports user guide for more details. You can access the journal via our NHS My Journals list . (Remember to log on with your Athens username and password).

The Campus Library will be open 24-hours a day, 7 days a week as follows: Saturday 16 April 2011 to Tuesday 31 May 2011 inclusive. Please see the Campus Library website for details about opening hours .

The Main Service and Short Loan Counters (Campus Library) will be closed for staff training as follows:   15 March: 09:30 – 10:30   17 March: 14:15 – 15:15 During these times please use the Self-Service points.  These are located in the Entrance Foyer and Short Loan areas. Please see the Campus Library website for details about opening hours .

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Bulletin no.289, 7th March 2011, please click here

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Bulletin no.288, please click here

We are delighted to announce that the Health Library is now able to take payments at the Counter by debit card, credit card, or Keele Card.

Have a look at the latest new titles that have been added to the Library Catalogue during February. These include: Advance care planning: national guidelines / Royal College of Physicians of London Introductory guide to NHS finance in the UK / Anna Green Making public services management critical / edited by Graeme Currie, Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding and Mark Learmouth Putting commissioning into practice: implementing practice based commissioning through good financial management / Audit Commission Should primary care trusts be made more locally accountable? A King's Fund discussion paper / Ruth Thorlby, Richard Lewis and Jennifer Dixon.

If you want to search for information across a range of journals or are looking to do your own literature search then you need to check out the NHS Evidence Healthcare Databases Advanced Search or HDAS. This provides you with: A single interface to search across a number of databases including Medline, Cinahl, PsychInfo and others Thesaurus searching to help focus your search Limiting parameters such as publication date, type of patient or type of publication to help you to get the most up-to-date, relevant information Export options to save, email or print your results HDAS Search Box To get access to HDAS either log on with your NHS Athens username and password at www.library.nhs.uk or see the Healthcare Resources page on the Health Library website . For more help in using NHS databases see our online help sheet  and guides If you want more assistance to get the most out of this resource you could attend our training course on Literature Searching with NHS databases . W...