Health Library News

NHS Evidence recently published the following Evidence Updates : Improving outcomes in head and neck cancers (May 2012) focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE cancer services guidance ‘Improving outcomes in head and neck cancers’ (2004). Familial breast cancer (May 2012) focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE clinical guideline 41 ‘The classification and care of women at risk of familial breast cancer in primary, secondary and tertiary care’ (2006). Sedation in children and young people (May 2012) focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE clinical guideline 112 ‘Sedation for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in children and young people’ (2010). Constipation in children and young people (June 2012) focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE clinical guideline 99 ‘Diagnosis and management of idiopathic childhood constipation in primary and secondary care’ (2010).

Map of Medicine has been upgraded to include a number of new features: New ways of searching for pathways including A-Z and specialty searching Bookmarking your favourite content Professional development certificates Example of new search tools You can use Map of Medicine to search for evidence-based care pathways for a wide range of conditions and diseases. You can access it via NHS Athens username and password. For more information, including video tutorials go to Map ofMedicine Resources . I’ve also added links to the Map of Medicine videos on our YouTube channel .

You can now get up-to-date, reliable information on policy, guidelines and the latest systematic reviews from a series of blogs published by Minervation Ltd. Subjects covered include: Mental Health   Musculoskeletal Diseases   Dental Health   Diabetes   Learning Disabilities   Lifestyle   These blogs have been added to our current awareness service where appropriate. You can use these resources to keep an eye on the latest significant releases of research or to use as discussion items during journal clubs.

Stand by for the annual Grand Autumn Book Sale .... coming to the Library soon. Look out for more information at the beginning of term.

Elsevier are carrying out maintenance to their systems. This will affect access to Science Direct and users will be unable to access our ejournal titles provided by this platform:  ** 12:30 PM GMT Saturday, August 25th - 7:30 AM Sunday, August 26 th Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

The Health Library will be closed on Bank Holiday Monday 27th August 2012. Remember that you can still access all our online resources .

Our training section of the website has been reorganised. You can now see what training courses are most relevant to you, whether you work at the UHNS   or for the NHS within the community or are a Keele student or member of staff . You can also find out what special support is available to you.

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.

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, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund.

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Titles include: 100 cases in acute medicine / Kerry Layne, Henry Fok, Adam Nabeebaccus. Anaesthesia for emergency care / edited by Jerry Nolan, Jasmeet Soar. Developing advanced skills in practice teaching / edited by Anne Smith, Heather McAskill and Kirsten Jack. Handbook for psychiatric trainees / edited by Dinesh Bhugra and Oliver Howes Nuclear cardiac imaging : principles and applications / edited by Ami E. Iskandrian, Ernest V. Garcia.  New ebooks include: ABC of stroke / edited by Jonathan Mant, Marion F. Walker.  Cardiac rehabilitation manual / Josef Niebauer, editor.  Clinical neuropsychology: a practical guide to assessment and management for clinicians / edited by Laura H. Goldstein, Jane E. McNeil.  Exercise therapy in the management of musculoskeletal disorders / edited by Fiona Wilson, John Gormley, Juliette Hussey.  The evidence base of clinical d...

Keele University have updated their email system. This has affected staff email addresses as well as the email address for the Inter-Library Loan team. All the new email addresses are listed on our Contact Us page. Please update any contact lists that you might have.

The 8th edition (2012) of the ever-popular Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine is now available in the library.

The template that we use for our Current Awareness Service appears to have changed, reducing the visibility of the colour scheme that we use. I have had to change the colour scheme to something which will allow me to use colour-coding in the feed headings. Please bear with me while I check all the tabs to endsure that they provide the right information. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.